Britain From Above

More than 95,000 images from one of the earliest and most significant collections of aerial photography of the UK are being made freely accessible online through the Britain from Above website.

Launched in June 2012 by RCAHMS, English Heritage and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the site features some of the oldest and most valuable images of the Aerofilms Collection, a unique and important archive of over 1 million aerial photographs taken between 1919 and 2006.

On the site you can download images, customise your own themed photo galleries, share personal memories, and add information to enrich the understanding for each of the images - and help to identity the locations of a number of “mystery” images that have left the experts stumped.

The Britain From Above project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.