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LiDAR map of Llanrhidian Higher
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Llanrhidian Higher (Llanrhidian Uchaf), a community in Swansea, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 36 recorded places here: 20 Coflein records, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 4 m and 97 m above sea level; its highest point is about 125 m.
Llanrhidian Higher 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 Llanrhidian Higher, 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 Llanrhidian Higher. 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 Llanrhidian Higher 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 36 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
- 14.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 36
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–97 m above sea level; highest 125 m
- ONS code
- W04000968
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Pen-y-GaerScheduled monument
- Hen Gastell, Pen-ClawddAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Gron GaerAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Penclawdd Sea Dock and CanalScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Tabernacle Presbyterian Chapel
- Bethel Independent Chapel
- Tirzah Baptist Chapel
- Walls with ornamental gates and railings, Bethel
Other recorded places
- Penclawdd CollieryCoflein record
- Penllwyn Robert EarthworksCoflein record
- Penclawdd railway stationWikidata place
- Anchorage, Bacas SandsCoflein record
- Slipway, Dalton PointCoflein record
- Dock, Penclawdd Copper WorksCoflein record
- St David's Mission Room, WernffrwdCoflein record
- St Gwynour's Church, Penclawdd; Church of StCoflein record
- Capel Isaac Independent Chapel, Caban IsaacCoflein record
- Carmel Chapel, CilonnenCoflein record
- Mount Hermon Baptist Chapel, Pen-ClawddCoflein record
- Crofty:Zoar; Croft School, Llanrhidian UchafCoflein record
- Penuel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, LlanmorlaisCoflein record
- Llanmorlais railway stationWikidata place
- Bryn-Hir, Garden, Pen-ClawddCoflein record
- Penclawdd Copper Works, Penclawdd, SwanseaCoflein record
- Crofty InnCoflein record
- Parc Hendy Earthworks, Pen-ClawddCoflein record
- Landing Place, Salthouse PointCoflein record
- Llanrhidian HigherWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Loughor Castle4.4 km north-east
- Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb4.9 km south
- Weobley Castle6.0 km 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.