LiDAR map of Buan
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Buan, a community in Gwynedd, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 57 recorded places here: 31 Coflein records, 14 listed buildings, 5 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 4 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 25 m and 142 m above sea level; its highest point is about 280 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 henge or standing stone and 1 settlement.
Buan 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 Buan, 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 Buan. 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 Buan 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 57 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
- 32.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 57
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 25–142 m above sea level; highest 280 m
- ONS code
- W04000055
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Garn BoduanScheduled monument
- Garn SaethonAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Maesoglan FarmAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Nant y Gledrydd Standing StoneScheduled monument
- WyddgrugAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Tyddyn Bychan, Rhyd y ClafdyAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Garn BoduanAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Hut Circle Settlement at Pen-y-CaerauScheduled monument
- Enclosed Hut Group South of PenbodlasScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Ty Capel Rhydyclafdy
- Pont Rhydyclafdy
- Church of St Tudwen
- Capel Rhydyclafdy
- Church of St Ceidio
- Penhyddgan
- Automobile Association Telephone Call Box
- Efail Gledrydd Forge
- Lychgate and churchyard wall to Church of St
- Milestone by Tuhwnt i'r Gors
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Roadsign
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Madryn CastleCoflein record
- Madryn Castle, GatehouseCoflein record
- St Buan's ChurchCoflein record
- Fairey Battle N2026Coflein record
- Supermarine Spitfire V EP182Coflein record
- St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel BachellaethCoflein record
- Ffynnon FairCoflein record
- CeidioCoflein record
- Coed Creigiau-Cathod, Stone;Standing Stone, CarnCoflein record
- Standing Stone, MeillionenCoflein record
- Capel PenielCoflein record
- Bron HeulogCoflein record
- Madryn Castle Earthwork Enclosure in GroundsCoflein record
- Nefyn Chain Home Radar Station, Cefn LeisiogCoflein record
- Ceido Bach, Circular and Polygonal EarthworksCoflein record
- Enclosed Hut N.W of Ty'n-y-MynyddCoflein record
- Graigwen ChapelCoflein record
- Bodfean ChapelCoflein record
- Cors Geirch National Nature ReserveWikidata place
- Garn Bach;Pen-y-Caerau, Settlement FeaturesCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Garn Boduan3.2 km north
- Tre'r Ceiri10.9 km north-east
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.
- 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.