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LiDAR map of Briton Ferry
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Briton Ferry (Llansawel), a community in Neath Port Talbot, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 74 recorded places here: 52 Coflein records, 13 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 6 m and 223 m above sea level; its highest point is about 314 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 henge or standing stone.
Briton Ferry 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 Briton Ferry, 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 Briton Ferry. 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 Briton Ferry 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 74 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
- 7.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 74
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–223 m above sea level; highest 314 m
- ONS code
- W04001022
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Mynydd y Gaer (Lower) CampScheduled monument
- Buarth y Gaer, Mynydd y GaerScheduled monument
- Warren Hill, Briton FerryAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Carreg Hir Standing Stone, Pen-Rhiw-TynScheduled monument
- Ynysmaerdy Railway InclineScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Dock walls and gate between inner dock and outer
- Former Steam Power House at Briton Ferry Docks
- Church of St Mary
- War Memorial
- Rehoboth Baptist Chapel
- Rehoboth Chapel Sunday School
- Salem Baptist Chapel
- Briton Ferry Ironworks Engine House
- Workshops, stores and office at Briton Ferry
- Roving Bridge over Neath Canal at Giant's Grave
- Church of St Clement
- Hydro-accumulator tower at Briton Ferry Docks
- Bridge over Ynysmaerdy Incline
Other recorded places
- Briton Ferry LibraryCoflein record
- Briton Ferry Steel Works, Briton FerryCoflein record
- Briton Ferry StationCoflein record
- Jersey Park, Briton FerryCoflein record
- Briton Ferry Gas WorksCoflein record
- Briton FerryCoflein record
- Cwrt Sart Independent Chapel, Cwrt Sart, NeathCoflein record
- Briton Ferry floating dockWikidata place
- Gaer Fawr, CairnCoflein record
- Giant's Grave Pill: Neath Canal and River NeathCoflein record
- Neath River Navigation: Derelict BargeCoflein record
- Neath Canal: Giant's Grave Secondary TerminusCoflein record
- Giant's Grave Secondary Terminus, Dry Dock 2Coflein record
- Giant's Grave Secondary Terminus, Dry Dock 3Coflein record
- Giant's Grave Secondary Terminus, Dry Dock 4Coflein record
- Giant's Grave Secondary Terminus, TranshipmentCoflein record
- Giant's Grave Secondary Terminus, TranshipmentCoflein record
- Giant's Grave Secondary Terminus, TranshipmentCoflein record
- Giant's Grave Secondary Terminus, TranshipmentCoflein record
- Sunday School;VictoriaCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Craig Ty-Isaf1.2 km south
- Neath Abbey3.3 km north-west
- Neath Castle3.3 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.
- 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.