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General
Wendover is first mentioned in the will of Aelfheah, Aeldorman of Hampshire and Wiltshire in 970 AD. It is believed that the town got its name from a local stream as it derives from a Celtic name for a river meaning ‘white waters’. By the time of the Domesday Survey of 1086 the town was known as Wendoure.
Wendover is a picturesque little town nestled into the Chiltern Hills and surrounded by woodlands. There has been a market held at Wendover since the reign of King John (1199-1216). Past industries included lace making and straw plaiting. In the High Street stands a sixteenth century inn The Red Lion which has seen many famous visitors including Oliver Cromwell and Robert Louis Stevenson
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Railway Station
One day a man decided to take the train to visit his grandmother in Wendover. When he got off the train he had to cross over the footbridge between platforms to reach the exit. As he reached the other platform he saw the guard who tipped his hat and said ‘good morning’ to him and he said ‘good morning’ back. When he reached his grandmothers he told her that there was a new guard working at the station. His grandmother was a bit confused by this as she knew that the guard was still a local man named Martin. She asked her grandson to describe the polite guard and when he did she said that the description matched Mr. Wells who had worked at the station when she was a little girl and had been dead for fifty years.
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