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LiDAR map of Rhossili
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rhossili (Rhosili), a community in Swansea, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 42 recorded places here: 29 Coflein records, 11 scheduled monuments, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 41 m and 128 m above sea level; its highest point is about 192 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 hillforts, 1 castle, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 church or chapel.
Rhossili 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 Rhossili, 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 Rhossili. 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 Rhossili 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 42 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
- 10.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 42
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 41–128 m above sea level; highest 192 m
- ONS code
- W04000593
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Deborah's Hole CampScheduled monument
- Promontory Fort on Worms HeadScheduled monument
- Thurba CampScheduled monument
- Paviland CampScheduled monument
- Horse Cliff CampScheduled monument
- Lewes Castle Promontory FortScheduled monument
- Old Castle CampScheduled monument
- Paviland CaveScheduled monument
- Rhossili Down Round CairnsScheduled monument
- Cave 40m SE of Deborah's HoleScheduled monument
- Remains of Medieval Building & Church at RhossiliScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Mewslade CaveCoflein record
- Avro Anson I N5086Coflein record
- Mew Slade Probable Promontory FortCoflein record
- Common Cliff coastal promontory fortCoflein record
- Mewslade Bay Lime KilnCoflein record
- Newton Lodge, Cropmark Enclosure WCoflein record
- The Beacon;Rhossili Down, Cairn VIIICoflein record
- Rhossili Down, Cairn IVCoflein record
- Rhossili Down, Cairn VIICoflein record
- Rhossili Down, Cairn ICoflein record
- Rhossili Down, Cairn V, SiteCoflein record
- Rhossili Down, Ring CairnCoflein record
- Middleton Hall Cottages Probable DefendedCoflein record
- Paviland Manor Cropmark Complex, South-EasternCoflein record
- Paviland Manor Cropmark Complex, North-EasternCoflein record
- Paviland Manor Cropmark Complex, North-WesternCoflein record
- Worm's Head CaveCoflein record
- Fernhill EnclosureCoflein record
- Rhossili Down Second World War Gun EmplacementCoflein record
- Rhossili Down Early Field BoundaryCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Deborah's Hole Camp1.4 km south-east
- Penrice Castle7.4 km east
- Oxwich Castle7.5 km 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.