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LiDAR map of Penycae
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Penycae (Pen-y-cae), a community in Wrexham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 64 recorded places here: 54 Coflein records, 4 scheduled monuments, 3 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 191 m and 461 m above sea level; its highest point is about 511 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns.
Penycae 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 Penycae, 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 Penycae. 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 Penycae 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 64 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
- Wrexham, Wales
- Area
- 19.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 64
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 191–461 m above sea level; highest 511 m
- ONS code
- W04000239
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Two Cairns on Ruabon MountainScheduled monument
- Penycae CairnScheduled monument
- Ruabon Mountain Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Cefn y Gader Round BarrowsScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Miles Martinet I HP227Coflein record
- Supermarine Spitfire I X4167Coflein record
- Bristol Beaufighter T F MkX NE302Coflein record
- Hawker Hurricane I V7001Coflein record
- Miles Master III W9093Coflein record
- North American P-51 Mustang III Fx898Coflein record
- Supermarine Spitfire I K9892Coflein record
- Ffynnon Fair, PenycaeCoflein record
- Cefn y Gader Cairn BCoflein record
- Bryn-Adda, Cairn ICoflein record
- Bryn-Adda, Cairns II , IIICoflein record
- Bryn-Adda, Cairn IVCoflein record
- Bryn Adda, Cairn VCoflein record
- Ruabon Mountain, Cairn IIICoflein record
- Bryn Adda, Cairn VICoflein record
- Cefn-y-Gader, Cairn ICoflein record
- Bryn-Adda, Shafts ICoflein record
- Bryn-Adda, Shafts IICoflein record
- Gwter Siani, ShaftsCoflein record
- Mountain Lodge, Shafts ICoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Pont Cysyllte5.0 km south
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct5.1 km south
- Bersham Ironworks5.1 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.