LiDAR map of Wrexham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wrexham at one metre per pixel, with the 1,705 recorded historic places the heritage records hold here, the Roman roads and the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1843–1913 over the same ground. Free, in a browser.
Places on the LiDAR in Wrexham
Each page shows the site on the LiDAR with its record, its location and the recorded places around it.
- Bangor BridgeBridge
- Bersham IronworksIndustrial site
- Farndon BridgeBridge
- Holt CastleCastle
- Pont CysyllteBridge
- Pontcysyllte AqueductScheduled monument
LiDAR maps of the communities of Wrexham
One page for each of the 34 communities, with a LiDAR picture and the recorded places inside it.
- Abenbury18 recorded places
- Acton25 recorded places
- Bangor Is-y-coed11 recorded places
- Bronington49 recorded places
- Broughton54 recorded places
- Brymbo55 recorded places
- Caia Park24 recorded places
- Cefn90 recorded places
- Ceiriog Ucha170 recorded places
- Chirk115 recorded places
- Coedpoeth29 recorded places
- Erbistock25 recorded places
- Esclusham83 recorded places
- Glyntraian32 recorded places
- Gresford35 recorded places
- Gwersyllt57 recorded places
- Hanmer34 recorded places
- Holt40 recorded places
- Isycoed20 recorded places
- Llangollen Rural57 recorded places
- Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog76 recorded places
- Llay24 recorded places
- Maelor South31 recorded places
- Marchwiel38 recorded places
- Minera62 recorded places
- Offa79 recorded places
- Overton41 recorded places
- Penycae64 recorded places
- Rhosddu45 recorded places
- Rhosllanerchrugog46 recorded places
- Rossett53 recorded places
- Ruabon68 recorded places
- Sesswick27 recorded places
- Willington Worthenbury31 recorded places
About the LiDAR
The terrain model is made from an airborne laser survey with vegetation and buildings removed, so earthworks show as height: hillfort ramparts, barrows, Roman road banks, hollow ways and ridge and furrow. In the app the picture is computed as you change the settings, with a moveable sun, a local relief model, multidirectional hillshading and the VAT composite. See how to read a LiDAR map and what archaeology looks like on LiDAR.
Sources
- LiDAR: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
Last updated 2026-10-16.