LiDAR map of Yscir
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Yscir (Ysgir), a community in Powys, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 46 recorded places here: 18 Coflein records, 7 listed buildings, 7 scheduled monuments, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 Roman inscriptions. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 168 m and 343 m above sea level; its highest point is about 417 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 henges and standing stones, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 castle.
Yscir 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 Yscir, 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 Yscir. 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 Yscir 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 46 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
- 22.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 46
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 168–343 m above sea level; highest 417 m
- ONS code
- W04000354
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Coed Fenni-Fach CampScheduled monument
- Pen-y-CrugScheduled monument
- Battle Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Fennifach Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Ffinant Isaf, AberysgirAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Caer Rufeinig y GaerScheduled monument
- Aberyscir Round CairnScheduled monument
- Aberyscir Castle MoundScheduled monument
- ‘Cicutio’Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Pen-y-crugAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Penoyre House
- Telephone Call-box in Cradoc
- Pontaryscir
- Church of Saint Cynog
- Church of Saint Mary and Saint Cynidr
- Pont-ar-Fran
- Milestone at Battle
Other recorded places
- Coed Caer, Enclosure, AberyscirCoflein record
- Aberyscir Roman Practice CampCoflein record
- Candidus Tombstone; Battle Fawr TombstoneCoflein record
- Maen y Morwynion; The Maidens StoneCoflein record
- Battle, site of BattleCoflein record
- Battle Hill, Cairn ICoflein record
- Battle Hill, Cairn IICoflein record
- Pool Farm - Cradoc, Roman Road, or StreetCoflein record
- Aberyscir - Section of Roman RoadCoflein record
- Elim Baptist ChapelCoflein record
- Medieval Shrunken Settlement, BattleCoflein record
- Siloam Chapel, Independent and CongregationalCoflein record
- Afon YsgirWikidata place
- Battle of BreconWikidata place
- Cradoc railway stationWikidata place
- Penoyre, Grotto, CradocCoflein record
- Battle Fawr, Garden, BreconCoflein record
- Lake House,Gludy LakeCoflein record
- YscirWikidata place
- AberyscirWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Y Gaer Roman Fort1.9 km south
- Aberyscir Castle2.0 km south
- Brecon Castle5.1 km south-east
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- 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.