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Originally Posted by mazex
Google Earth as many sure know have a "history slider" that shows aerial maps from old days. Over the UK there is a rather large coverage of aerial photos from 1945 - most of London is there etc - and a lot further north. As Isle of Wight is also there I went to a random place (this is true - I did NOT search) and captured a shot from 1945 and one from 2005 (the latest):
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Thank you!
Putting the two maps on top of each other in Photoshop, it is easy to see that this bit of land has not changed much. About one in five fields seem to be spilt relative to their modern counterparts (I would have expected a higher number). Small bits of 1945 wood are now under the plough, but not much. An industrial area has been put up east of the fjord/rivermouth, but Newport is otherwise much as in 1945. All in all not a very great change.