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LiDAR map of Townhill
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Townhill, a community in Swansea, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 16 recorded places here: 15 Coflein records, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 88 m and 167 m above sea level; its highest point is about 177 m.
Townhill 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 Townhill, 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 Townhill. 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 Townhill 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 16 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
- 1.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 16
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 88–167 m above sea level; highest 177 m
- ONS code
- W04000978
Other recorded places
- Our Lady of Lourdes, Townhill, SwanseaCoflein record
- Penygraig Rifle Range, TownhillCoflein record
- Carmarthen Road, Carmarthen Road, SwanseaCoflein record
- Congregational Church, Dyfed Avenue, TownhillCoflein record
- Hall, Powys Avenue, TownhillCoflein record
- Cwmbwrla Welsh Independent Chapel, CarmarthenCoflein record
- Hafod Mission, SwanseaCoflein record
- Hebron, SwanseaCoflein record
- Tabernacle, Carmarthen Road, SwanseaCoflein record
- Townhill Baptist Chapel, Powys Avenue, TownhillCoflein record
- Mount TaborCoflein record
- Wesley Mission English Wesleyan Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Hafod;Trevivian;Vivianstown, SwanseaCoflein record
- HafodCoflein record
- MayhillWikidata place
- Mayhill Junior School, Creidiol Road, SwanseaCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Swansea Castle1.8 km south-east
- Morris Castle2.9 km north-east
- Oystermouth Castle6.4 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.