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LiDAR map of Cynwyl Elfed
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cynwyl Elfed, a community in Carmarthenshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 43 recorded places here: 25 Coflein records, 13 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 124 m and 281 m above sea level; its highest point is about 316 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 barrows or cairns and 3 henges and standing stones.
Cynwyl Elfed on the LiDAR. Bare-earth LiDAR, drawn in your browser by the RVT toolbox (the Relief Visualization Toolbox, ZRC SAZU). It opens on Combined VAT; the panel holds all seventeen of its methods, each with its settings. LiDAR: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Cynwyl Elfed, 1888–1913. The Ordnance Survey’s six-inch-to-the-mile map, second edition, surveyed between 1888 and 1913 and held by the National Library of Scotland, laid over today’s map with the paper colour removed, so the field boundaries, place names and antiquities the surveyors drew sit on the ground. More about this map
Roman roads near Cynwyl Elfed. The Roman road network compiled by the Roman Roads Research Association (Digital Britannia), with each road’s grade of evidence, and the Roman forts, camps and towns along them. More about this map
See Cynwyl Elfed with everything Waystone has
The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network and the 43 recorded places in the community, with search, the sun dial, the ground probe and the cross-section tool, for all of England and Wales. Free, with nothing to install.
- County
- Carmarthenshire, Wales
- Area
- 59.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 43
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 124–281 m above sea level; highest 316 m
- ONS code
- W04000500
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Gareg Hir Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Garreg Wen Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Carreg Wen Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Cerrig Llwydion Burial ChamberScheduled monument
- Crug Ieuan Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Carn Wen Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Crug Glas Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Crug Gwyn Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Nant-Gronw Round BarrowsScheduled monument
- Crug Bach Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Crug Fach Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Ty Cwm Tawel Anti-invasion DefencesScheduled monument
- Clawdd-MawrScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- PillboxCoflein record
- Fortified House, Cynwyl ElfedCoflein record
- Pen-y-Caerau Mawr, EnclosureCoflein record
- Clawdd MawrCoflein record
- Crug-y-DurnCoflein record
- Clawdd-MawrCoflein record
- Crug Pen-Rhiw-CrynfrynCoflein record
- Cwmduad VillageCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Priory of St John and St Teulyddog11.1 km south-east
- Carmarthen Castle11.2 km south-east
- Newcastle Emlyn Castle11.9 km north-west
Neighbouring parishes
Reading the LiDAR
The terrain model has trees, crops and buildings removed, so banks, ditches, mounds, old field systems and hollow ways show as relief. Many are modern or natural: check the records and the old Ordnance Survey map in the app. How to read a LiDAR map. Scheduled monuments are protected by law; use public rights of way.
Sources
- LiDAR: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Heights: Waystone, from the same LiDAR sampled about every 12 m inside the boundary; 'most of the ground' is the middle 80% of those heights; metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
- Parish boundary: Office for National Statistics, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.