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LiDAR map of Blaenrheidol
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Blaenrheidol, a community in Ceredigion, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 755 recorded places here: 709 Coflein records, 28 scheduled monuments, 11 listed buildings, 7 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 275 m and 578 m above sea level; its highest point is about 752 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 16 barrows or cairns, 4 settlements and 2 industrial sites.
Blaenrheidol 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 Blaenrheidol, 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 Blaenrheidol. 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 Blaenrheidol 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 755 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
- Ceredigion, Wales
- Area
- 89.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 755
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 275–578 m above sea level; highest 752 m
- ONS code
- W04000361
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Dinas SW of Aber-PeithnantScheduled monument
- Stone Circle and Round Cairns, HirnantScheduled monument
- Garn Lwyd Round Cairn & Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Cairns on Pen Plynlimon-ArwystliScheduled monument
- Y Garn, 2400m NNW of Eisteddfa-GurigScheduled monument
- North Cairn on Pen Plynlimon-FawrScheduled monument
- Llywernog Lead and Silver MineScheduled monument
- Cairn Circle 200m NNW of DolgamfaScheduled monument
- Carn Fawr Round CairnsScheduled monument
- Carneddau Round Cairns, DrosgolScheduled monument
- Hengwm Ring CairnsScheduled monument
- Disgwylfa Fawr Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Central Cairn on Pen Plynlimon-FawrScheduled monument
- Cairn on Pen Lluest-y-CarnScheduled monument
- Y Garnedd, HirnantScheduled monument
- Cairn Circle 400m SW of Lle'r NeuaddauScheduled monument
- Round Barrow 290m SSW of Nant-y-MochScheduled monument
- Bryn Rhosau Round BarrowsScheduled monument
- Southernmost Cairn on Pen Plynlimon-FawrScheduled monument
- Carn Fach BugeilynScheduled monument
- Cairn 400m N of Lle'r NeuaddauScheduled monument
- Castell Lead MineScheduled monument
- Banc Erw Barfe Deserted Rural SettlementScheduled monument
- Lluest Nantycreuau Deserted Rural SettlementScheduled monument
- Hen Bont, Pont-ErwydScheduled monument
- Esgair Naint Deserted Rural SettlementScheduled monument
- Nant yr Helygen Deserted Rural SettlementScheduled monument
- Llys Arthur, Dyffryn-CastellScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel, forecourt wall
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Churchyard gateway and churchyard wall to right
- Telephone Call-box
- Milestone on A4120
- Milestone on A44
- Milestone on A44
- Milestone on A44
- Milestone on A44
- Milestone on B4343
- Milestone on B4343
Other recorded places
- Nant y Moch Reservoir IVCoflein record
- Disgwylfa Fach HillfortCoflein record
- Eisteddfa Gurig Enclosure BankCoflein record
- Lockheed Hudson V9127Coflein record
- Hunting Jet Provost T.4 XP564Coflein record
- Lockheed Lightning F-5E 44-24229Coflein record
- Lockheed Hudson III V9127Coflein record
- Bwlchystyllen 'Chamber'Coflein record
- Glandwr Standing Stone ICoflein record
- Llywernog Lead Mine, ShaftCoflein record
- Bwlch-y-Styllen Standing StoneCoflein record
- Maesnant Standing StoneCoflein record
- Llyn Syfydrin Standing StoneCoflein record
- Blaen Llywernog Stones ICoflein record
- Blaen Llywernog Stones IICoflein record
- Powell's Llywernog Mine, PonterwydCoflein record
- Ponterwyd MillCoflein record
- Bont Fâch, PonterwydCoflein record
- Ponterwyd Quarry IICoflein record
- Llywernog Quarry IICoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Llywernog Mine4.1 km south-west
- Frongoch Mine9.8 km south-west
- Ystrad Peithyll11.4 km 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.