LiDAR map of Ilston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ilston (Llanddinol), a community in Swansea, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 49 recorded places here: 24 Coflein records, 10 listed buildings, 9 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 39 m and 110 m above sea level; its highest point is about 187 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 long barrow or chambered tomb, 1 Roman site, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 motte or ringwork.
Ilston 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 Ilston, 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 Ilston. 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 Ilston 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 49 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
- 19.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 49
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 39–110 m above sea level; highest 187 m
- ONS code
- W04000572
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Parc le Breos Chambered TombScheduled monument
- Crawley Rocks, Nicholston BurrowsAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Cefn Bryn Burial ChamberScheduled monument
- Penmaen Burrows Burial ChamberScheduled monument
- Willoxton CwmAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Cat Hole CaveScheduled monument
- Church Hill Romano-British enclosureScheduled monument
- Cefn Bryn Burnt MoundScheduled monument
- Cairns on Cefn BrynScheduled monument
- Tooth Cave, LlethridScheduled monument
- Penmaen Burrows RingworkScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Illtyd
- Penrice Towers gate house
- Church of St Nicholas
- Outlying tower designed to complement Penrice
- Mount Pisgah Chapel
- Former school
- Preaching cross in St Nicholas' Churchyard
- Park Mill with Miller's House, Carpenters Shops
- Lime Kiln
- Lime Kiln
Other recorded places
- Cefn Bryn E, CairnCoflein record
- Pennard Pill Promontory FortCoflein record
- North Hills Lane, Barrow CemetaryCoflein record
- Parc Le Breos, Managed WoodlandCoflein record
- Glan-y-MorCoflein record
- Nicholaston CastleWikidata place
- Nicholaston Hall, CairnCoflein record
- Talbot Road, Cairn I;Talbot's Road, Cairn ICoflein record
- Talbot Road, Cairn II ;Talbot's Road, Cairn IICoflein record
- Nicholston Hall, MoundCoflein record
- Pillowmound on The Great Tor HeadlandCoflein record
- Lunnon, site of Medieval Manorial Farm or GrangeCoflein record
- Cefn BrynWikidata place
- Fairwood CommonWikidata place
- Practice Trenches and Military EarthworksCoflein record
- Nicholaston Hall, Garden, NicholastonCoflein record
- Parc Le Breos, Garden, PenmaenCoflein record
- Parc Le Breos, Wood EnclosureCoflein record
- Parc Le Breos, site of Rabbit WarrenCoflein record
- Carter's Ford SmithyCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb910 m south
- Pennard Castle2.2 km south
- Penrice Castle4.9 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.
- 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.