LiDAR map of Castle
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Castle (Castell), a community in Swansea, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 87 recorded places here: 45 listed buildings, 35 Coflein records, 7 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 6 m and 74 m above sea level; its highest point is about 126 m.
Castle 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 Castle, 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 Castle. 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 Castle 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 87 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
- Swansea, Wales
- Area
- 2.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 87
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–74 m above sea level; highest 126 m
- ONS code
- W04001033
Places with their own page
Listed buildings
- Swansea Castle
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Hall
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
- St. David's Priory R.C. Church
- Central Police Station
- Central Library
- H.M.Prison, Main Block
- Swansea County Court & Offices
- Hafod Bridge
- Mount Pleasant Hotel
- H.M.Prison, Main Block
- Telecom Building
- Bethesda Baptist Church
- Ebenezer Baptist Chapel
- Mount Pleasant Baptist School Blocks
- Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Hall
- St. Matthew's Church
- St Andrew's United Reformed Church
- Palace Theatre
- Offices of Community Industry
- Unitarian Church
- Pagefield House
- Top Rank Club
- Kings Arms PH
- YMCA Building
- Former Carlton Cinema
- Memorial Fountain to Henry Evans Charles
- Mercer Offices
- Mercer Offices
and 15 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- St Jude's Church, Mount Pleasant, SwanseaCoflein record
- Mount Pleasant Hospital, SwanseaCoflein record
- Swansea InfirmaryCoflein record
- Technical College Building, Mount PleasantCoflein record
- Swansea Engine ShedCoflein record
- Grenemill;Greenhill Mill, SwanseaCoflein record
- Greenhill, Greenhill Street, SwanseaCoflein record
- St Joseph's CathedralWikidata place
- St Joseph's Cathedral Primary School, SwanseaCoflein record
- Market Hall, SwanseaCoflein record
- St Helen's Primary School, SwanseaCoflein record
- Swansea HarbourCoflein record
- Tabernacle Baptist Chapel, Skinner StreetCoflein record
- Salvation Army Citadel, Richardson Street, SwanseaCoflein record
- Grand Theatre, SwanseaWikidata place
- Quadrant Shopping CentreWikidata place
- North Dock, SwanseaCoflein record
- Wellington Brewery; Singleton Brewery, Little GamCoflein record
- PlantasiaWikidata place
- Tabernacle Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ChapelCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Swansea Castle520 m east
- Morris Castle3.3 km north
- Oystermouth Castle6.2 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.