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LiDAR map of Pontypridd Town
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Pontypridd Town, a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 197 recorded places here: 114 Coflein records, 45 listed buildings, 33 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 61 m and 272 m above sea level; its highest point is about 382 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn and 1 Roman site.
Pontypridd Town 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 Pontypridd Town, 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 Pontypridd Town. 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 Pontypridd Town 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 197 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
- 35.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 197
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 61–272 m above sea level; highest 382 m
- ONS code
- W04001039
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ring Cairn and Two Standing Stones on Coedpenmaen CommonScheduled monument
- Pen-y-Coedcae Roman CampScheduled monument
- Tarren Deusant Sculptured Rock & SpringScheduled monument
- Y Garreg Siglo Bardic ComplexScheduled monument
- Ratostabios? (river)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Pontypridd Bridge
- Municipal Buildings
- Headframe at Hetty Shaft
- Forest House, University of Glamorgan
- Pontypridd Register Office
- Hetty Engine House
- Church of St Catherine
- Former Smithy at Treforest Tinplate Works
- Former Rolling Mill at Treforest Tinplate Works
- The Pontypridd Museum
- Memorial to Evan and James James at Ynysangharad
- Machine Bridge
- Old Market Hall
- Railway Bridge beneath Pontypridd Railway Station
- Former Casting House and Workshop at Treforest
- Former Tinning House at Treforest Tinplate Works
- Leat Retaining Wall at Treforest Tinplate Works
- Taff Vale Railway Viaduct over Mill Street
- White Bridge
- Workshop
- St David's Presbyterian Church and Hall
- Capel Rhondda
- Libanus Welsh Baptist Church
- Cilfynydd War Memorial
- Welch Regimental War Memorial
- Rhydyfelin War Memorial
- Taff Vale Railway Viaduct over River Taff
- Former Mission Hall
- Bethany Baptist Church
- Church Hall at Catholic Church of St Dyfrig
and 15 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- PillboxCoflein record
- Cefn Eglwsilan, Round BarrowCoflein record
- Mynydd Eglwysilan, DykeCoflein record
- Cemetery Chapel, GlyntafCoflein record
- Hawthorn Greyhound RacecourseCoflein record
- Stone Setting on Twyn-y-GwyntCoflein record
- Stone Circle at PontypriddCoflein record
- Albion Colliery, CilfynyddCoflein record
- St Mary's Church, GlyntafCoflein record
- Ffynnon RhingyllCoflein record
- Maes-y-Coed, Garden, PontypriddCoflein record
- Crawshay Obelisk, PontypriddCoflein record
- Glyntaf ChapelCoflein record
- Pontypridd Rifle RangeCoflein record
- Glenview Brewery, PontypriddCoflein record
- Cefn Eglwysilan, Quarry IICoflein record
- County Cinema, PontypriddCoflein record
- Pant Waungorrwg, BarrowCoflein record
- Twyn y Gwynt, Ring BarrowCoflein record
- Twyn y Gwynt, Cairn IICoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Pontypridd Bridge1.0 km west
- Lle'r Gaer4.9 km south-west
- Caerphilly Castle7.8 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Llantrisant
- Taffs Well
- Llantwit Fardre
- Tonyrefail
- Penyrheol, Trecenydd and Energlyn
- Aber Valley
- Trehafod
- Nelson
- Abercynon
- Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm
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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.