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.
• By Map Sheet list

See also:

• Further information