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Westbury Road, NORTHWOOD, HA6 3BT

This is the Southern end of Westbury Road in Eastbury near Northwood.

Westbury Road is immediately to the south of Sandy Lodge Golf Course and leads away from where the London LOOP passes under the Metropolitan line.

Westbury Road is immediately to the south of Sandy Lodge Golf Course and leads away from where the London LOOP passes under the Metropolitan line.

The path is the green trace through the mown grass, but in the winter this part is somewhat wet and muddy, so it is better to take a drier course through the mown area. The power line is National Grid route ZC.

Yes this is Westbury Road in Eastbury... The Ordnance Survey's 1:50,000 scale mapping shows a series of solid red circles along this road, meaning that it is an "Other route with public access (not normally shown in urban areas)". On the Ordnance Survey's 1:25,000 scale maps the same symbol is used but in solid green. Perhaps the road is historically a private one, but one for which there is a public right of way. There is certainly nothing to differentiate it from any other road. The houses on the left are probably at the very limit of the built-up area of London. On the right is The Fairway.

This tiny bridge allows cars, and nothing much bigger, to pass between Eastbury and Moor Park which is beyond the bridge. There has always been an historic right of way through here, long before the Moor Park estate was built and long before suburban Eastbury was built. In fact the bridge dates from around 1887 when the Metropolitan Railway extended their line from Pinner to Rickmansworth and the existing right of way had to be accommodated. Today it is the point at which the approximate 240 kilometre (or about 150 mile) long London Loop long distance footpath crosses the railway.