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LiDAR map of Pontarddulais
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Pontarddulais, a community in Swansea, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 68 recorded places here: 61 Coflein records, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 9 m and 216 m above sea level; its highest point is about 286 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 church or chapel.
Pontarddulais 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 Pontarddulais, 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 Pontarddulais. 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 Pontarddulais 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 68 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
- 15.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 68
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 9–216 m above sea level; highest 286 m
- ONS code
- W04000590
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Earthwork on Graig FawrScheduled monument
- Two Burial Chambers on Graig FawrScheduled monument
- Site of St Teilo's Old Parish Church, Llandeilo, Talybont (now removed to St Fagans)Scheduled monument
- Leuca (river)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Other recorded places
- Cefn Drum, Possible Passage GraveCoflein record
- Hope, Pontarddulais, Llandeilo TalybontCoflein record
- Pontardulais War MemorialCoflein record
- Pontardulais Gas Works ICoflein record
- Graig Fawr CairnCoflein record
- Cefn Drum, Round CairnCoflein record
- Pontardulais Possible Defended EnclosureCoflein record
- Graig Fawr, CairnCoflein record
- Graig Fawr, CairnCoflein record
- Graig Fawr Ring CairnCoflein record
- Graig FawrCoflein record
- Graig Fawr, Burnt MoundsCoflein record
- Graig Fawr, CairnCoflein record
- Graig Fawr, CairnCoflein record
- Graig Fawr, CairnCoflein record
- Pontardulais, Pillow Mounds NrCoflein record
- Pontarddulais Primary SchoolCoflein record
- Pontardulais Gas Works IICoflein record
- Pontarddulais Comprehensive SchoolCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Penlle'r Castell7.8 km north-east
- Loughor Castle7.9 km south-west
- Morris Castle10.0 km south-east
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.