Home LiDAR map Neath Port Talbot Blaengwrach
LiDAR map of Blaengwrach
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Blaengwrach, a community in Neath Port Talbot, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 23 recorded places here: 15 Coflein records, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 98 m and 492 m above sea level; its highest point is about 600 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn and 1 industrial site.
Blaengwrach 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 Blaengwrach, 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 Blaengwrach. 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 Blaengwrach 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 23 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
- 14.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 23
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 98–492 m above sea level; highest 600 m
- ONS code
- W04000602
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Foel Chwern Round CairnScheduled monument
- Remains of Venallt IronworksScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Pillbox, BlaengwrachCoflein record
- Craig-y-Pant, CairnCoflein record
- Aberpergwm, GlynneathCoflein record
- Calfaria Baptist Chapel, Cwm-GwrachCoflein record
- Garn FachCoflein record
- St Mary's Church, Church Crescent, BlaengwrachCoflein record
- Selar Opencast Coal Mine, Glynneath; SelarCoflein record
- Siloh Independent Chapel, Heol Wenallt, Cwm-GwrachCoflein record
- Blaen-Gwrach Unitarian Chapel, Cwm-GwrachCoflein record
- English, Glyn Nedd, Nedd Uchaf, Neath HigherCoflein record
- Craig y LlynWikidata place
- Vale of NeathWikidata place
- Cwmrhyd-y-Gau Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Glyn Neath railway stationWikidata place
- Beaufort Tinplate Works: Fforch-Goch WaterwheelCoflein record
- Cwmgwrach CollieryCoflein record
- Miners' Welfare Ground, CwmgwrachCoflein record
- Cwmgwrach Welfare HallCoflein record
- Aberpergwm BypassCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Foel Chwern1.7 km east
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown11.5 km east
- Maen Madoc11.8 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.