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LiDAR map of Llwchwr
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Llwchwr, a community in Swansea, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 41 recorded places here: 25 Coflein records, 6 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 6 m and 47 m above sea level; its highest point is about 63 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle, 1 hillfort and 1 Roman site.
Llwchwr 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 Llwchwr, 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 Llwchwr. 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 Llwchwr 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 41 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
- 7.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 41
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–47 m above sea level; highest 63 m
- ONS code
- W04000970
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Loughor CastleScheduled monument
- Roman Practice Camp on Stafford CommonScheduled monument
- Mynydd Carn-Goch Roman EarthworksScheduled monument
- ‘Leucaro’Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- The Old Town Hall
- The War Memorial
- Schoolroom at Capel Moriah
- Boundary Stone at Kingsbridge
- Capel Moriah
- Gates and railings at Capel Moriah
Other recorded places
- Battle of LlwchwrWikidata place
- Loughor, GlassworksCoflein record
- St Paul's, Swansea Road, Gorseinon Garden VillageCoflein record
- Bethel Calvinistic Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Caeduke Colliery, Loughor: Pithead BathsCoflein record
- Pisgah Chapel, Pisgah Bwlchnewydd, LoughorCoflein record
- VenusCoflein record
- Nebo Independent ChapelCoflein record
- Soar Independent Chapel, Pengry Road, Dre-UchafCoflein record
- Penuel Baptist Chapel, Loughor Road, GorseinonCoflein record
- Libanus Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, LibanusCoflein record
- English, Gorseinon, Llandeilo TalybontCoflein record
- Afon Lliw Anti-Tank DitchCoflein record
- Mynydd Carn Goch Anti-Glider TrenchesCoflein record
- Bryngwyn Hall, Garden, GorseinonCoflein record
- Loughor Zinc Works, Loughor, SwanseaCoflein record
- Loughor Zinc WorksCoflein record
- Kiln near Broadoak CollieryCoflein record
- Brynau-Duon Paper Mill, PenllergaerCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Loughor Castle1.3 km west
- Morris Castle8.4 km east
- Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb8.9 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.
- 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.