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LiDAR map of Cwmavon
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cwmavon (Cwmafan), a community in Neath Port Talbot, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 32 recorded places here: 20 Coflein records, 7 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 48 m and 239 m above sea level; its highest point is about 370 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle and 1 industrial site.
Cwmavon 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 Cwmavon, 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 Cwmavon. 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 Cwmavon 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 32 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
- 10.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 32
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 48–239 m above sea level; highest 370 m
- ONS code
- W04001023
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Pen-y-CastellScheduled monument
- Cwm-Clais Castle MoundScheduled monument
- Cwmafan copper works flueScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Pontrhydyfen Viaduct
- Bont Fawr Aqueduct
- Church of St Michael
- Tabernacle Chapel
- Penuel Chapel
- Bethel Chapel
- Ynysafan Tramroad Bridge
Other recorded places
- Bristol Blenheim IV L9172Coflein record
- Cwmafan Methodist Chapel, Depot Road/Salem RoadCoflein record
- Seion Independent Chapel;Zion CongregationalCoflein record
- Tabor Baptist ChapelCoflein record
- Apostolic Church, CwmafonCoflein record
- Salem Calvinisic Methodist Chapel; St PhilipCoflein record
- Sunday School, Rock, CwmafanCoflein record
- Rock Independent Chapel Pwll-y-Glaw, CwmafonCoflein record
- Machpelah, Llanfihangel-Ynys-Afan, MichaelstoneCoflein record
- Bethania Baptist Chapel, CwmafanCoflein record
- Rock Baptist Chapel, CwmafanCoflein record
- Pelly Street Primitive Methodist Chapel, PellyCoflein record
- Afan Forest ParkWikidata place
- Mynydd BychanCoflein record
- Coed-y-Parc, Garden, CwmavonCoflein record
- Oakwood IronworksCoflein record
- Oakwood Ironworks Water TowerCoflein record
- Caer HendyCoflein record
- CwmavonWikidata place
- Nant-y-ClaisCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Craig Ty-Isaf2.7 km west
- Neath Castle5.9 km north-west
- Nidum6.3 km north-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.