Wendover Arm Footbridge No 11
Wendover Arm Footbridge No 11 carries a farm track over the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Wendover Arm - unrestored section).
The Act of Parliament for the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Wendover Arm - unrestored section) was passed on 17 September 1876 and 17 thousand shares were sold the same day. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Northchester to Polstan canal at Reigate, the difficulty of tunneling through the Westhampton Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Middlesbrough instead. The canal between Sunderland and Liverington was obliterated by the building of the Nottingham bypass in 1972. In Nicholas Yates's "By Handcuff Key and Piling Hook Across The Pennines" he describes his experiences passing through Slough Aqueduct during the war.

There is a bridge here which takes pedestrian traffic over the canal.
| Wendover Basin | 3½ furlongs | |
| Wendover Arm Footbridge No 11 | ||
| The Wides | 2½ furlongs | |
| Perch Bridge No 10 | 4½ furlongs | |
| Halton Bridge No 9 | 1 mile, 1¾ furlongs | |
| Rothschilds Bridge No 8A | 1 mile, 2½ furlongs | |
| Harelane Bridge No 8 | 1 mile, 6 furlongs | |
'Rail Crossing' (No.11) is the name of this slender footbridge over the canal. The location was originally the site of a railway bridge carrying a branch line from Wendover Station to the nearby Halton RAF Camp. The old rail alignment is now a public footpath.
- Grand Union Canal Walk — associated with Grand Union Canal
- An illustrated walk along the Grand Union Canal from London to Birmingham
- THE GRAND JUNCTION CANAL - a highway laid with water. — associated with Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal)
- An account of the Grand Junction Canal, 1792 - 1928, with a postscript. By Ian Petticrew and Wendy Austin.
- Wendover Arm Trust — associated with Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Wendover Arm)
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![Wendover Arm - The Footbridge at Railway Crossing. Bridge No 11. See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/23/57/1235760_dc03623d_120x120.jpg)



![Wendover Arm: Negotiating the Railway Crossing. See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/23/57/1235758_a24fdba9_120x120.jpg)

![The Footpath beyond the Railway Crossing. There is a large field behind the hedge on the left. The Wood on the right seems to be a natural regeneration rather than planted, and beyond it there is a reed-filled “inlet.â€See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/23/57/1235762_20c6bc80_120x120.jpg)
![Wendover Arm: A Marshy Area. Just north of the Railway footbridge there is a large marshy area to the west of the canal, adjacent to the wood, where an inlet has been flooded.See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/26/13/1261343_83113d8a_120x120.jpg)




![Wendover Arm: View across the canal towards Aston Hill. In a view like this one has to look twice to realise that this is not a natural chalk stream, but a disused canal which nature has reclaimed.See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 25 March 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/23/56/1235672_d72636c1_120x120.jpg)
![Wendover Arm: Just like a chalk stream. This is one of the places where the canal takes on the character of a natural chalk stream which flows from deep springs all the year round. It is comparatively shallow with crystal clear water and marshy banks lined with reeds, and supports a wide variety of invertebrate life – forming the bottom of a natural food chain. Its importance in environmental terms should be judged by the fact that most of the natural chalk streams in the Chilterns have been significantly changed by human activity. For instance the headwaters of the rivers Ver and Misbourne have been totally dry for periods during the late 20th century because of over-extraction of water from nearby borings, while the river Gade has also been seriously affected and may well have died out in the upper reaches. In addition what remains of the river Bulbourne is now little more than an overflow and flood relief channel for the muddy water of the Grand Union Canal. See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/26/13/1261351_dafcec2d_120x120.jpg)
![Wendover Arm: Backed by fields and the Chiltern Hills. For much of the length of the canal in this area the east bank is wooded, or at least there is a good hedge. Here there are only occasional trees, behind which is a prairie-like arable field, with a backdrop of the Chiltern Hills. The buildings in the distance are a firing range [[1232031]].See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/26/13/1261355_6c8f7258_120x120.jpg)




![Wendover Arm: Reed beds in the Canal. See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 25 March 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/23/56/1235668_c1c7e0e6_120x120.jpg)
![Wendover Arm: The Southern End of “The Wides”. When the canal was built it cut across a shallow valley with a spring at the back – and the towpath acts as a low dam with (originally) the small lake behind forming an extra winding hole. The area is now almost completely overgrown with reeds, with boggy ground in the woods behind [[1230723]]. The woods, and the far side of the lake are in an adjacent grid square [[SP8709]].See [[1235539]] by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/26/13/1261361_797204a4_120x120.jpg)

![End of the Disused Railway Line. The track of the Halton Railway [[1230842]] ends at this point, with no indication of any buildings, etc., and it may be that the line ran further but has been ploughed out. by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/23/08/1230852_5d99c160_120x120.jpg)
![Stile and Field Path at Halton. A footpath from the village of Halton to Wendover crosses the track of the Halton Railway.[[1230842]]. by Chris Reynolds – 01 April 2009](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/23/09/1230965_b73d384c_120x120.jpg)

