Ordnance Survey Air Photo Mosaics, 1944-1950
These air photo mosaics provide detailed information on the landscape of England, Scotland and Wales in the 1940s. They cover 20% of the British landscape at 1:10,560 scale, and 16 towns/cities in England and Wales at 1:1,250 scale. For Ordnance Survey, they were a temporary way of providing some landscape coverage at the end of the Second World War, before up-to-date regular mapping could be created.
Browse the air photos:
- As individual sheets using a zoomable map
- As a seamless zoomable layer with modern satellite imagery or maps:
- 1:10,560 scale - Overlay or Side by side (England and Scotland).
Shows good landscape detail of fields, farms, roads, railways and woodland. - 1:1,250 scale - Overlay or Side by side (16 towns/cities in England and Wales (Side by side): Barrow-in-Furness,
Bath,
Canterbury,
Coventry,
Dover,
Exeter,
Gloucester,
Great Yarmouth,
Kingston-upon-Hull,
Liverpool,
London,
Lowestoft,
Portsmouth,
Southampton,
Swansea,
Sunderland.).
Shows excellent detail of urban topography including streets, buildings and industrial premises.
- 1:10,560 scale - Overlay or Side by side (England and Scotland).
- By Map Sheet list
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