Home LiDAR map Merthyr Tydfil Vaynor
LiDAR map of Vaynor
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Vaynor (Y Faenor), a community in Merthyr Tydfil, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 313 recorded places here: 277 Coflein records, 20 listed buildings, 11 scheduled monuments, 5 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 261 m and 440 m above sea level; its highest point is about 517 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns, 3 enclosures and other earthworks, 1 church or chapel and 1 castle.
Vaynor 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 Vaynor, 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 Vaynor. 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 Vaynor 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 313 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
- Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
- Area
- 28.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 313
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 261–440 m above sea level; highest 517 m
- ONS code
- W04000881
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Nant Crew Inscribed Stone (now in Cefn Coed Church)Scheduled monument
- Garn Pontsticill ring cairnScheduled monument
- Coetgae'r Gwartheg barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Cefn Cil-Sanws ring cairnScheduled monument
- Carn Ddu platform cairnScheduled monument
- Cefn Cil-sanws, cairn on SW side ofScheduled monument
- Cefn Cil-sanws defended enclosureScheduled monument
- Enclosure on Coedcae'r YchainScheduled monument
- Enclosure East of Nant Cwm MoelScheduled monument
- Cae Burdydd CastleScheduled monument
- Cefn Car settlementScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Cefn Railway Viaduct
- Pont y Cefn
- Pont Sticill
- Pont Sticill
- Carmel Welsh Baptist Chapel
- Road bridge near former Pontsarn Station
- Tower of Old Church of St Gwynno
- Tabor Independent Chapel
- Pont-sarn
- Gravestone of Robert Thompson Crawshay
- Dam, valve tower, bridge and outflow
- Vaynor War Memorial
- Dam, valve tower, bridge and outflow
- Brecon and Merthyr Railway bridge beside
- Milestone on A470 near Dan-y-graig
- Milestone on A470 near Wyrlod-ddu
- Milestone on A470
- Pont-Sarn
- Filter House at Pontsticill Water Treatment Works
- Llwyn-on Reservoir dam
Other recorded places
- Cefn Cil-Sanws Round HutCoflein record
- Cefn Cil Sanws Cairn ICoflein record
- Cefn Cil Sanws Cairn IICoflein record
- Cefn Cil-Sanws Cairn IIICoflein record
- Cefn Cil-Sanws Cairn IXCoflein record
- Cefn Cil-Sanws Cairn VCoflein record
- Cefn Cil-Sanws Cairn VICoflein record
- Cefn Cil-Sanws Cairn VIIICoflein record
- Cefn Cilsanws CairnfieldCoflein record
- Cefn Car Standing StonesCoflein record
- Fedw Standing StoneCoflein record
- Cefn Car, Standing StoneCoflein record
- Cefn Ynys-Fawr, Standing Stone ICoflein record
- Cefn Ynys-Fawr, Standing Stone IICoflein record
- Nant Gwinau, Standing Stone ICoflein record
- Nant Gwinau, Standing Stone IICoflein record
- Nant Llysiog, Standing StoneCoflein record
- Waun Wen, Standing Stone ICoflein record
- Waun Wen, Standing Stone IICoflein record
- Waun Wen, Standing Stone IIICoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Morlais Castle2.4 km south-east
- Pont-y-Cafnau4.5 km south
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown8.9 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.