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This map based search shows the locations of over 130,000 photos with over 95,000 viewable as photos and the work continues with more added weekly. Each pin represents the location of a photo, search adjacent pins as camera angles can vary.
Aerial photos can reveal hidden archaeology and sites that are difficult or even impossible to see from the ground. You can explore over 400,000 digitised photos taken from our aerial photo collections of over 6 million photographs preserved in the Historic England Archive.
To view the aerial view of the current map location, you need to select an aerial year to display. Click on the aerials button in the top left of the viewer. You should see a list of years pop out to the right. These are the years of aerial coverage that we currently have for the area indicated by center point of the map.
One search to find aerial photos sourced from the UK’s largest aerial photography publishers. Search by postcode, easting/northing, placename, grid reference, latitude/longitude. Get the detail you need - from 5cm to 1m resolution. Preview and download in 1 minute. Many aerial photos not available on Google.
- Hadrian's Wall, White Moss, near Carlisle, Cumbria. Roman temporary camps discovered and Second World War Sites. Hadrian’s Wall was part of a broader system of Roman infrastructure which included roads, forts, and temporary camps which form the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site.
- Yorkshire Dales National Park. One of the first areas of England to be extensively mapped with features drawn by hand on transparent film - discoveries of prehistoric earthworks and mining for lead in the Post-Medieval period.
- Cannock Chase, Staffordshire : a prehistoric Hillfort. Evidence of medieval farming, 18th and 19th century coal mining and vast First World War training camps.
- Whitley Castle Roman Fort, Alston, Cumbria. Whitley Castle is a Roman fort and is protected as a scheduled monument. It survives as a series of impressive earthworks and is unusual because instead of the typical playing card shape of Roman forts, this is lozenge shaped, adjusted to fit into an area of high ground.
Skyviews Aerial Archives is home to the world’s largest archive of historic UK aerial photography. With over 10 million aerial images from around Great Britain dating from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. We are the first choice for people and businesses wanting to locate historic aerial images.
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Over a million aerial photos from the 40s to the 90s are available to search at the click of a button. Search for your area of interest by Postcode, Street name, City or Grid Reference.
