Monument record 0520100000 - Wendover Gas Works, adjacent to Canal Wharf

Small circular gasholder on artificial mound is all that remains of Wendover gasworks. Steel guides. Rivetted steel plate construction - 3 lifts. Dated c.1925. [1974 photo] (B1).
No visible remains of gasworks or gas holder in area of wasteland fringed by new housing (B2).
The Wendover Gas Light and Coke Co. Ltd was formed in 1868. The gasworks were built by the canal wharf and supplied and erected by W.C. Holmes & Co. of Huddersfield. In the 1920’s the undertaking was purchased by Aylesbury, a gas main was laid from Aylesbury to Wendover and the gas production at Wendover ceased. In 1949 the undertaking was vested in Southern Gas Board. Nothing visible survives (B3).

A gas works of post medieval/modern date are visible on historic aerial photographs as extant structures and were mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located at on the west side of the Wendover Arm of the Grand Junction Canal, Wendover, and centred at SP 86933 08233. The Ordnance Survey Epoch 1 map shows a single smaller gas holder, two gas holders and small buildings are visible by the 1940s. In 1969 a single gas holder and small buildings remain; modern aerial images show the area has been redeveloped for housing. (4-8)