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LiDAR map of Aberdare East
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Aberdare East (Aberdâr Dwyrain), a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 67 recorded places here: 47 Coflein records, 9 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 128 m and 386 m above sea level; its highest point is about 457 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 industrial site.
Aberdare East 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 Aberdare East, 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 Aberdare East. 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 Aberdare East 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 67 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
- Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
- Area
- 6.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 67
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 128–386 m above sea level; highest 457 m
- ONS code
- W04001011
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- GwersyllAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Carn Pentyle-Hir & Adjacent Round CairnScheduled monument
- Garn Las EarthworkScheduled monument
- Ring Cairn South of Twyn BlaennantScheduled monument
- Gadlys Ironworks (Remains of Blast Furnace)Scheduled monument
Listed buildings
- St Elvan's Church
- Siloa Capel Y Annibynwyr
- Calfaria Chapel
- Aberdare Market
- St John the Baptist Parish Church
- Bethania Chapel
- Presbytery at Catholic Church of St Joseph
- Gadlys Higher Standard School
- Catholic Church of St Joseph
Other recorded places
- Abernant StationCoflein record
- Christ Church, AberdarCoflein record
- Aberdare Low Level Station, Aberdare RailwayCoflein record
- Aberdare CinemaCoflein record
- Carn Tyle HirCoflein record
- Round Cairn on Mynydd AberdareCoflein record
- Aberdare Girls Upper Comprehensive SchoolCoflein record
- Bethel, AbernantWikidata place
- Nazareth Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, AbernantCoflein record
- Commercial Street Platform railway stationWikidata place
- Aberdare CanalWikidata place
- St Matthew's Church, AbernantWikidata place
- St Mary's Social Centre, Weatheral StreetCoflein record
- Bryn-Mawr OpencastCoflein record
- Mountain Pit Engine ShaftCoflein record
- Mountain Pit Boundary ShaftCoflein record
- Mountain Pit Air Shaft ICoflein record
- Mountain Pit Air Shaft IICoflein record
- Mountain Pit Air Shaft IIICoflein record
- Soar Independent Chapel, Wind Street, AberdareCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown1.9 km west
- Pont-y-Cafnau4.1 km north-east
- Morlais Castle6.8 km north-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.
- 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.