South East England
Buckinghamshire
Aylesbury Vale

Wendover

Wendover is a town and civil parish at the foot of the in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated at the point where the main road across the Chilterns between London and intersects with the once important road along the foot of the Chilterns.
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  • Type: Town with 7,700 residents
  • Description: market town in Buckinghamshire, England
  • Also known as: “Wendover, Buckinghamshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wendover railway station and Weston Turville Reservoir.

Railway station
Photo: Trainspotter12, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the town of Wendover in , England, and villages including and Wendover Dean. The station is on the London Marylebone – Aylesbury line and is served by Chiltern Railways trains.

Reservoir
Photo: Chris Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 19 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of in . It is owned by the Canal & River Trust, and the open water is leased to sailing and fishing clubs while the surrounding land is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

Manor estate
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is a country house in the above the of in , . It was built for Alfred Freiherr de Rothschild between 1880 and 1883.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stoke Mandeville and Halton.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in , England. It is located three miles from Aylesbury and 3.4 miles from the market town of Wendover. is situated 2 miles northwest of Wendover.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of the ceremonial county of , England, located about two miles north of Wendover and five miles southeast of .

Village
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is a historic village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in , England. The village lies at the foot of the , between the Wendover and Aylesbury arms of the . is situated 2½ miles north of Wendover.

Wendover

Latitude
51.7677° or 51° 46′ 4″ north
Longitude
-0.7443° or 0° 44′ 40″ west
Population
7,700
Elevation
430 feet (131 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WDO
Open location code
9C3XQ794+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21137940
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634538
Wiki­data ID
Q2569184
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Wendover” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Wendover”
  • Basque: “Wendover”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েনডোভার”
  • Catalan: “Wendover”
  • Cebuano: “Wendover”
  • Chinese: “Wendover”
  • Chinese: “文多弗”
  • Dutch: “Wendover”
  • Esperanto: “Wendover”
  • French: “Wendover”
  • German: “Wendover”
  • Greek: “Γουέντοβερ”
  • Gujarati: “વેન્ડોવર”
  • Irish: “Wendover”
  • Italian: “Wendover”
  • Japanese: “ウェンドーヴァー”
  • Japanese: “ウェンドバー”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಂಡೋವರ್”
  • Korean: “웬도버”
  • Ladin: “Wendover”
  • Lithuanian: “Vendoveris”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wendover (Buckinghamshire)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wendover”
  • Persian: “ونداور”
  • Polish: “Wendover”
  • Portuguese: “Wendover”
  • Romanian: “Wendover”
  • Russian: “Уэндовер”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ونداور”
  • Spanish: “Wendover”
  • Swedish: “Wendover”
  • Tamil: “வெண்டோவெர்”
  • Telugu: “వెన్దోవేర్”
  • Ukrainian: “Вендовер”
  • Urdu: “ویندوور”
  • Volapük: “Wendover”
  • Welsh: “Wendover”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wendover”. Photo: djim, CC BY 2.0.