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 1944 Aerial Photo: Carter's Hill/Winnersh

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1944 Close-ups:

Starfish Site in WWII

Arborfield Hall Farm

Shinfield & Earley

Carter's Hill & Betty Grove

Mole Road

Sindlesham Mill

Lower Earley

Earley & Reading Road

Woodley

Winnersh

Modern
Close-ups
(courtesy of Multimap.com):

Arborfield Hall Farm

Carter's Hill and Bearwood

Sindlesham

Winnersh Cross Roads

Winnersh Triangle

Sindlesham Mill

Lower Earley

Dinton Pastures

The effect of the Motorways on the growth of Arborfield and its neighbours

The USAAF aerial photo of Carter's Hill and Winnersh shown below, dated 8th March 1944, ref. 5045, is reproduced by permission of National Monuments Record, English Heritage.  

Compare it against the old Ordnance Survey map shown on the right.

You should now be able to see:

Winnersh, the A329 and Loddon Bridge at the top, along with the railway line (by the way, Earley station was known at one time as 'Little Hungerford');
Woodley just off the picture to the north;
Earley to the left;
Shinfield at the bottom left;
the River Loddon, snaking its way from the bottom left northwards to Woodley at the top left.

Arborfield Hall Farm is at the bottom of the picture.

Arborfield Cross is off the picture to the bottom right.

Picture No. 5045 was part of a series of overlapping photos, and No. 5046 (not available here) shows Winnersh Cross-Roads in great detail.

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