LiDAR map of Pennal
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Pennal, a community in Gwynedd, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 46 recorded places here: 29 Coflein records, 10 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 5 m and 370 m above sea level; its highest point is about 633 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 castle.
Pennal 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 Pennal, 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 Pennal. 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 Pennal 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 46 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
- 41.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 46
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–370 m above sea level; highest 633 m
- ONS code
- W04000093
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cefn-Caer Roman SiteScheduled monument
- Tarren Hendre CairnScheduled monument
- Tomen Las Castle MoundScheduled monument
- Cefn CaerAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Pont Pennal
- Church of St Peter ad Vincula
- Llugwy Hall
- Telephone Call-box
- Riverside Hotel
- Ty-bont, with Post Office and General Stores
- Addoldy MC Pennal
- Capel Annibynwyr Carmel
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Vickers Wellington Ic R1068Coflein record
- Standing Stone, Trum Gelli SE SlopesCoflein record
- Cairn, Trum GelliCoflein record
- Round Barrow, Trum Gelli SE SlopesCoflein record
- Cairn, Braich DduCoflein record
- Cairn, Trum GalliCoflein record
- Cairn - Trum GelliCoflein record
- Llugwy Hall, LodgeCoflein record
- Ditch, Trum Gelli SE SlopesCoflein record
- Ditch, Trum Gelli SE SlopesCoflein record
- Pennal, site of BattleCoflein record
- Cwm Ebol quarryWikidata place
- Ditch, Ffridd RhosfarchCoflein record
- Mos Ee AA Ynyslas Radar StationCoflein record
- MoundCoflein record
- Sarn Helen, Roman Road, Pennal - LlanioCoflein record
- Pennal Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, PennalCoflein record
- Cwrt Independent Sunday School, PennalCoflein record
- Bryniau ChapelCoflein record
- Gogarth railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Aberdyfi Castle4.3 km south
- Dyfi Bridge5.2 km east
- Dyfi Furnace6.1 km south
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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.