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LiDAR map of Aberdaron
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Aberdaron, a community in Gwynedd, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 149 recorded places here: 106 Coflein records, 23 listed buildings, 11 scheduled monuments, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 32 m and 148 m above sea level; its highest point is about 302 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 settlements, 2 barrows or cairns, 2 churches or chapels and 1 field system.
Aberdaron 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 Aberdaron, 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 Aberdaron. 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 Aberdaron 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 149 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
- Gwynedd, Wales
- Area
- 47.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 149
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 32–148 m above sea level; highest 302 m
- ONS code
- W04000042
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Castell OdoScheduled monument
- Rhiw Burial ChambersScheduled monument
- Creigiau GwineuAtlas of Hillforts entry
- ConionAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Hut Circle at Mynydd-y-GraigScheduled monument
- Mynydd Rhiw Round CairnsScheduled monument
- Hut Circle Settlement North-West of Mount PleasantScheduled monument
- Porth OerAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Mynydd Enlli Round Barrow, Bardsey IslandScheduled monument
- Huts on Mynydd Enlli, Bardsey IslandScheduled monument
- Site of St Merin's ChurchScheduled monument
- St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument
- Capel AnelogScheduled monument
- Long Houses, Enclosures & Field Systems, Bardsey IslandScheduled monument
- Bardsey IslandAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Hywyn
- Ruin of Abbey of St Mary
- Melin Daron
- Aberdaron New Church
- Carmel Chapel
- Plas yn Rhiw
- Bodwrdda
- Church of St Maelrhys
- Bardsey Island Lighthouse
- Frondeg
- Ty'n-y-graig
- Church of St Aelrhiw
- Stores Buildings at Bardsey Lighthouse
- Former Engine House and Fog Station at Bardsey
- Compound Walls at Bardsey Lighthouse
- Milestone outside Cartref
- Milestone
- Walls to Old School
- The Old School
- Bridge at Bodwrdda
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Meillionydd EnclosureCoflein record
- Bronheulog Burial ChamberCoflein record
- Dinas Promontory FortCoflein record
- Ffynnon Ddwrdan, Holy WellCoflein record
- Ffynnon SaintCoflein record
- Ffynnon Saint, Holy WellCoflein record
- Cist Burial & Urn and Finds,RhiwCoflein record
- Circular PlatformCoflein record
- Hut Circle, Mynydd BwchestynCoflein record
- Hut CirclesCoflein record
- Capel Tan-y-Foel, Standing StoneCoflein record
- Cairn I, Mynydd RhiwCoflein record
- Cairn II , Mynydd RhiwCoflein record
- Nant EiddonCoflein record
- Braich y Pwll, Maen Melyn LleynCoflein record
- Mynyd y Graig Plas Yn Rhiw, Hut CirclesCoflein record
- Mynydd y Graig, Plas Yn Rhiw, Hut CircleCoflein record
- Mynydd Anelog Long HutCoflein record
- Hut CircleCoflein record
- Hut CircleCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Bardsey Abbey9.7 km south-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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.