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LiDAR map of Blaenavon
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Blaenavon (Blaenafon), a community in Torfaen, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 467 recorded places here: 434 Coflein records, 14 listed buildings, 12 scheduled monuments, 7 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 348 m and 492 m above sea level; its highest point is about 574 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 industrial site.
Blaenavon 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 Blaenavon, 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 Blaenavon. 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 Blaenavon 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 467 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
- Torfaen, Wales
- Area
- 17.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 467
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 348–492 m above sea level; highest 574 m
- ONS code
- W04000760
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Coal and Iron Ore Workings West of Abergavenny Road, BlaenavonScheduled monument
- Engine Pit, BlaenavonScheduled monument
- Old Coal Pits, BlaenavonScheduled monument
- Iron and coal patching at Pen-ffordd-gochScheduled monument
- Garn Road Powder House 300m ENE of Ashgrove BungalowScheduled monument
- Capel Newydd, Blaenavon (site of)Scheduled monument
- Blaenavon Upper Brick YardScheduled monument
- Brake Engine on Hill Pits Tramroad InclineScheduled monument
- Ironstone Quarries at Carreg Maen TaroScheduled monument
- Coity Sandstone Quarry and InclineScheduled monument
- Dyne Steel InclineScheduled monument
- Pwll Du TunnelScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Cast House and Foundry
- Blaenavon Evangelical Church
- Balance Tower
- Blast Furnaces
- St Peter's Church
- Council Offices
- Pit Head Building, Headframe and Tram Circuit
- Miners Baths and Canteen
- Former St Peter's School
- Bethlehem Congregational Church
- Former School-room to rear of chapel
- Carreg Maen Taro
- Former St Peter's Infants School
- Former St Peter's Boys' School
Other recorded places
- Forgeside, BlaenavonCoflein record
- Garn-yr-Erw InstituteCoflein record
- Dyne Steel's InclineCoflein record
- Blaenavon High Level Railway Station, BlaenavonCoflein record
- Forge Pond, ForgesideCoflein record
- Hill Pits, Bank ImmediatelyCoflein record
- Waun Afon, Railway BridgeCoflein record
- Two Cairns, Careg Croes Ifor, Pwll-Du, BlaenavonCoflein record
- St Paul's Church, BlaenavonCoflein record
- Ty Mawr or Great House, BlaenavonCoflein record
- Pillow Mounds on Coity Mountain, BlaenavonCoflein record
- Garn Yr Erw Upper Houses, Small Watercourse ECoflein record
- Garn Yr Erw Lower Houses, Linear DepressionCoflein record
- Hill Pits, BankCoflein record
- New Pit, Cairn NnwCoflein record
- New Pit, DitchCoflein record
- Coity Mountain, Pillow Mound IICoflein record
- Coity Mountain, Pillow Mound IIICoflein record
- Coity Mountain, Pillow Mound IVCoflein record
- Coity Mountain, Pillow Mound VCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Blaenavon Ironworks130 m east
- Dyne Steel Incline1.9 km north-west
- Abergavenny Bridge6.4 km north-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.