LiDAR map of Nefyn
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Nefyn, a community in Gwynedd, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 45 recorded places here: 29 Coflein records, 8 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 20 m and 132 m above sea level; its highest point is about 255 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 cross.
Nefyn 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 Nefyn, 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 Nefyn. 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 Nefyn 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 45 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
- 15.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 45
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 20–132 m above sea level; highest 255 m
- ONS code
- W04000092
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bryn RhyddAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Trwyn Porth DinllaenAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Cross Slab Built into Farm Building Ty'n-y-CaeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Nefyn Watch Tower
- Edern Presbyterian Chapel
- Capel Moreia
- Church of St Mary
- Pont Edern
- Pont Glan-rhyd
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- St Edern's Church, EdernCoflein record
- Fairey Battle I L5255Coflein record
- Fairey Battle I L5256Coflein record
- Custom House, Porth DinllaenCoflein record
- Cwmistir UchafCoflein record
- Morfa Nefyn Cropmark Barrow or EnclosureCoflein record
- Tyddyn-Blondeg Hut CircleCoflein record
- Morfa Nevyn;Morfa NefynCoflein record
- Porthdinllaen Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- Capel Pisgah Enclosed Hut GroupCoflein record
- Capel IsafCoflein record
- DolphinCoflein record
- ArdentCoflein record
- CometCoflein record
- Capel Peniel Independent Chapel, CeidioCoflein record
- St Peter's ChurchCoflein record
- Tabernacl Independent Chapel, Morfa NefynCoflein record
- Caersalem Welsh Baptist Church, Morfa NefynCoflein record
- Seion Welsh Baptist Church, Palace StreetCoflein record
- Mynydd Nefyn ChapelCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Garn Boduan1.8 km south-east
- Tre'r Ceiri8.8 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.