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This footbridge seems a little superfluous with the Kenton Road bridge being so close. It may have been built at the time that the railway was constructed in order to honour an ancient right of way. The width of the bridge is far greater than what would be required by pedestrians. It leads to Kenton Road from what would have been Sheepcote Farm, which, by this time, was long redundant as a working farm. The area had been given over for use as the Hill (later Northwick Park) golf course. The width of the bridge suggests it was an accommodation bridge, intended primarily for the movement of cattle to and from farm pasture land that would once also have existed on the north side of the railway and as a continuation of a route to Woodcock Hill Farm. I imagine that the bridge would have been swept away at the time the Met Railway was quadrupled, an expensive replacement no longer being required, as Sheepcote Farm was no longer operating. A remaining brick abutment from the old bridge can still be seen in the embankment on the south side of the railway, near to what is now The Westminster University campus. There was once also, a vestigial blind alleyway between properties on the north side into Kenton Road. '