page_title: Wendover
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Wendover / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Wendover Station. Wendover station was opened by the Metropolitan Railway in 1892 and, although later on the Great Central Railway's main line north to Sheffield, it continued to be part of the Metropolitan Line until 1961, when London Transport took the decision to pull out of running services beyond Amersham rather than electrifying to Aylesbury. Today it is served by Chiltern Railways trains from Marylebone. To the left is the much newer A413 Wendover by-pass opened in 1998.
context_page_description: Wendover is a market town and civil parish at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated at the point where the main road across the Chilterns between London and Aylesbury intersects with the once important road along the foot of the Chilterns. The town is some 35 miles north west of London and 5 miles south east of Aylesbury, and is very popular with commuters working in London.
  The parish has an area of 5,832 acres and had, at the time of the 2011 census, a population of 7,399. Outside the town of Wendover, the parish is mainly arable and also contains many hamlets that nestle amongst the woodlands on the surrounding hills. Although Wendover has a weekly market, and has had a market charter since medieval times, many of its inhabitants identify it as a village, and the parish council does not describe itself as a town council.
context_section_description: Wendover lies at approximately 130 metres (430 ft) above sea level. It occupies a prime position at the northern end of a natural crossing point through the Chiltern Hills, which wrap around the west, south and east of the town. To the north the land slopes gently downwards towards the flat, agricultural land of the Aylesbury Vale. To the west the town is overlooked by Coombe Hill (260 metres or 850 feet) and to the east by Wendover Woods (267 metres or 876 feet).
  The gap through the Chilterns that Wendover sits astride has long been an important communications route. It is used by the A413 road between London and Aylesbury, the London to Aylesbury railway line, and the new high speed rail link between London and the North that is now under construction. At Wendover this route is crossed by the route of the ancient Icknield Way, running along the line of the Chilterns, that has connected Wiltshire to Norfolk since prehistoric times.
  Besides the town itself, the civil parish includes the hamlets of: 
  Dean, located south of Wendover on Smalldean Lane between the hamlets of Smalldean and Little London.
  Kings Ash or Kingsash, located south-south east of Wendover on the Chesham Lane between the A413 road and the hamlet of Lee Gate.
  Little London, located south of Wendover on Smalldean Lane between the hamlet of Dean and the village of Dunsmore.
  Lower Bacombe, located south of Wendover on the lane between the main town and Upper Bacombe.
  Smalldean, located south of Wendover on Smalldean Lane, between the southernmost roundabout of the Wendover bypass and the hamlet of Dean.
  The Hale, located east of Wendover along Hale Lane.
  Upper Bacombe, located south-south west of Wendover on Bacombe Hill, close of the parish boundary.
  Wendover Dean, located south of Wendover on the A413 road, between Cobblershill Lane and Bowood Lane.
  World's End, located north west of Wendover where the B4009 road meets the A413 road.
caption: The bypass and railway station to the west of the town and looking north; the new High Speed 2 rail link will be in a tunnel further to the left
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