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Beginning at Wendover Canal Wharf, where the canal emerges beneath Wharf Road, this walk explores an area once used for loading barges and crossed by the Halton Light Railway, a line built during the First World War to serve the expanding RAF Station at Halton. Locally known as the “Puffing Billy”, the railway carried coal to the station until it closed in 1963, and today the route can still be followed along the old embankment after crossing Oliver’s Bridge.
From there the path leads across open fields towards Halton and alongside the Wendover Arm of the canal, offering peaceful countryside views and glimpses of the surrounding Chiltern landscape. Walkers can choose to detour through woodland to Weston Turville Reservoir for views of Coombe Hill and Wendover Woods, or continue along the canal past “The Wides”, now a reed bed rich in wildlife where birds such as little egrets and mandarin ducks can sometimes be seen.
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