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LiDAR map of Margam
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Margam, a community in Neath Port Talbot, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 82 recorded places here: 39 Coflein records, 21 listed buildings, 13 scheduled monuments, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 13 m and 290 m above sea level; its highest point is about 349 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 1 henge or standing stone, 1 church or chapel and 1 cross.
Margam 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 Margam, 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 Margam. 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 Margam 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 82 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
- 37.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 82
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 13–290 m above sea level; highest 349 m
- ONS code
- W04001024
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Mynydd y Castell CampScheduled monument
- Half Moon Camp, MargamAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Caer Blaen-y-Cwm, MargamAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Ty'n-y-Cellar Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Ergyd Uchaf Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Site of Bodvoc StoneScheduled monument
- Danish CampScheduled monument
- Twmpath Diwlith Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Margam Medieval Bath HouseScheduled monument
- Camp N of TonmawrScheduled monument
- Camp 530m E of TonmawrScheduled monument
- Chain Home Low Radar Station, MargamScheduled monument
- Hen Eglwys Chapel and Defended EnclosureScheduled monument
- Sculptured Cross Llanmihangel FarmScheduled monument
- Leat & Dam at Llanmihangel MillScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Margam Castle
- Margam Orangery
- St Mary's Abbey Church
- Beulah Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
- Ruins of Chapter House and Vestibule of St Mary's
- Ivy Cottage
- Stones Museum
- Ruined Undercroft at St Mary's Abbey
- Margam Crematorium
- Llanmihangel Mill
- Old Park
- Gates, Piers and Railings at Beulah Chapel
- Turbine House
- Ornamental Pool
- Garden Wall at Twyn yr Hydd
- Vestry at Beulah Chapel
- Citrus House
- Former Changing Room
- Kitchen Garden Wall and Glass House at Twyn yr
- Entrance to Twyn yr Hydd and Flanking Walls
- Bridge near Llanmihangel Mill
Other recorded places
- Ton Mawr Hillfort II , MargamCoflein record
- Ffynnon PedrCoflein record
- West Lodge, Margam CastleCoflein record
- Margam Country Park, MargamCoflein record
- Lady's Well, MargamCoflein record
- Ffynnon IagoCoflein record
- Eglwys Nunydd Reservoir, MargamCoflein record
- Coedhirwaun Rectangular Enclosure or FortCoflein record
- Bodnor Stone, Pillow Mnd. S.OfCoflein record
- Rhyd Blaen-y-Cwm,Pillow Mound?Coflein record
- Eglwys Nynnid Inscribed StoneCoflein record
- Enginehouse Plantation EarthworksCoflein record
- Margam, Deserted Rural Settlement EarthworksCoflein record
- Margam Park, Deserted Rural SettlementCoflein record
- Ergyd Uchaf, CairnCoflein record
- Mynydd Margam East, Barrow ICoflein record
- Mynydd Margam East, Barrow IICoflein record
- Moel Ton-Mawr, BarrowCoflein record
- Mynydd Margam South, BarrowCoflein record
- Mynydd Margam Beacon, BarrowCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Margam Abbey1.7 km west
- Llangynwyd Castle4.1 km north-east
- Kenfig Castle4.1 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.
- 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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.