Travelling through mid Wales is set to become easier this week with the official opening of the new £80m Newtown bypass on Thursday.

Since work began on the project to build a road around the Powys town, Aberystwyth-based Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales has been capturing images of the work from above as part of their national programme of aerial reconnaissance in the summer of 2016 and 2018.

The flying programme records archaeology of all periods, but also records views illustrative of the ‘people, landscape and history of Wales’.

This includes major civil engineering projects, ensuring that aerial views of key aspects of Welsh history are preserved for posterity in the National Monuments Record of Wales.

You can see more aerial photographs online here.