The maps illustrate the modifications occurred in the town of Westley from 1815 to the present days.
Overall, today the key structure of the town is still determined by the same main road which leads to Tinton Village as in 1815, but, apart from the market square and the town hall, every other building or infrastructure has changed. Some natural elements, Lake Lenton and the River Twine, remain untouched.
With regards to the northern area of the town, in 1815 the Twine Toll bridge enabled a connection to London, but at the moment it has been replace by a railway. Furthermore, the area once characterized by Lenton Woods is now occupied by the homonymous Housing Estate. Lord Westley’s House, on the way to Tinton Village, has been replaced by two facilities: the Lenton Hotel and the Red Lion.
At the centre of the town, the church has been replaced by a shopping centre. The southern areas of the town were affected both in the lower left-hand corner, with the passage of the railway where once there were fields, and the southern-east area, in which business, shopping and residences occupy the place that in 1815 was only full of houses.
