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LiDAR map of Aberavon
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Aberavon (Aberafan), a community in Neath Port Talbot, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 19 recorded places here: 15 Coflein records, 2 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 5 m and 8 m above sea level; its highest point is about 20 m.
Aberavon 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 Aberavon, 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 Aberavon. 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 Aberavon 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 19 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
- Neath Port Talbot, Wales
- Area
- 0.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 19
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–8 m above sea level; highest 20 m
- ONS code
- W04001019
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Aberafan Castle, Aberafan; Aberavon CastleCoflein record
- St Joseph's Catholic Church, Water StreetCoflein record
- Port Talbot SlabCoflein record
- St Mary's Church, AberavonCoflein record
- Port Talbot Slab FragmentCoflein record
- Aberafan CentreWikidata place
- Bethlehem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, PendarvisCoflein record
- Sandfields Hall English Calvinistic MethodistCoflein record
- Salem Independent Chapel , Sandfields RoadCoflein record
- Wern Welsh Independent Chapel , Wern StreetCoflein record
- Water Street English Baptist Church, AberafonCoflein record
- Sandfields Sunday SchoolCoflein record
- Victoria InstituteCoflein record
- AberavonWikidata place
- Aberavon Gas Works IICoflein record
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Junior SchoolCoflein record
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Comprehensive SchoolCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Craig Ty-Isaf3.1 km north
- Margam Abbey5.8 km south-east
- Neath Abbey7.5 km north
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.