LiDAR map of Penybont
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Penybont (Pen-y-bont), a community in Powys, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 168 recorded places here: 145 Coflein records, 10 listed buildings, 8 scheduled monuments, 3 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 221 m and 373 m above sea level; its highest point is about 630 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 2 medieval settlements, 1 hillfort and 1 henge or standing stone.
Penybont 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 Penybont, 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 Penybont. 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 Penybont 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 168 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
- Powys, Wales
- Area
- 37.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 168
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 221–373 m above sea level; highest 630 m
- ONS code
- W04000338
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Llandegley Rocks hillfortScheduled monument
- Cefnllys CastleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Ffrwd standing stoneScheduled monument
- Coed SwyddAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Llandegley RocksAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Pawl Hir Ring CairnScheduled monument
- Cwmbrith Round CairnScheduled monument
- Old Castle MoundScheduled monument
- Medieval Settlement on Penybont CommonScheduled monument
- Bank House Medieval SettlementScheduled monument
- Penybont Common Roman road and early turnpike roadScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- The Pales
- Penybont Hall
- Church of St Tecla
- Telephone Call-box
- Telephone Call-box
- Severn Arms Hotel
- Yard ranges attached to rear of Severn Arms
- Milestone sited approx. 800m
- Milestone
- Milestone by roadside on N side of farm road
Other recorded places
- Cefnllys MillCoflein record
- Llandegley MillCoflein record
- Pen-y-Bont BridgeCoflein record
- Pen Rhiw Frank Cairn IICoflein record
- Larch Grove, StoneCoflein record
- Possible Cairn on Llandegley RocksCoflein record
- Llandegley Rocks, W EnclosureCoflein record
- Bwlch Llwyn, Mound IICoflein record
- Rhos Swydd, Mound ICoflein record
- Llandegley Rocks, Cairn IVCoflein record
- Llandegley Rocks, Hut PlatformCoflein record
- Llandegley Rocks, Platform IICoflein record
- Llandegley Rocks, Cairn IIICoflein record
- Llandegley Rocks, Cairn IICoflein record
- Cwmbrith Bank, CairnCoflein record
- Bwlchyfedwen, CairnCoflein record
- Bwlchyfedwen, MoundCoflein record
- Mynyddyrheol, CairnCoflein record
- Llandegley SpaCoflein record
- The Bank, Earthwork BankCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Cefnllys Castle4.3 km west
- Crug Eryr Castle4.4 km south-east
- Cefnllys4.7 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.