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Aerial photograph of a new motorway crossing flat green countryside on an embankment. It bridges a canal and a railway, which run from the bottom of the picture towards the top, and there are patches of woodland between the green fields
Caption
The new M40 crosses a railway and a canal near King's Sutton, south of Banbury, in 1991.
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1600×1078
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