 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm standing on the Slough Road Bridge above the M25. This is a road that way goes to Warks Bridge, that way goes to Slough. Now just down there is what I think is possibly the lowest bridge on any public right away in Great Britain, possibly the world. It's so low I've had to bring my tape measure with me. We're going to go down there and see just how low this bridge is. So this very very low bridge, I found it a couple of weeks ago when I was doing my video on the River Alderbourne. So I'm going to leave the Slough Road here down this public footpath, down through the trees to the River Alderbourne. We're going to follow the River Alderbourne and it's just beyond the confluence with the Colm Brook. So the bridge itself is on the Colm Brook, but it also carries a public right away, which later would rejoin the Slough Road very close to Uxbridge. We'll go there later on in the video. So what happened was a few weeks ago I did part one of the River Alderbourne, that was in Fulmer, and then I did part two. Now part two, as I said, the river is very secretive, you can hardly see it, and it hardly featured at all because we could hardly find it, but that's the Alderbourne down there. If you want to see more about the Alderbourne then please do look at the link on screen now, you'll see that video on the River Alderbourne. As for the Slough Road, this is the original course here of the Slough Road. You can just see the pavement still here. You can still see the curve stone of the pavement. So this is the original Slough Road. When they built the motorway, they needed to take the road up to a higher alignment to clear the motorway. So here's the original bridge over the River Alderbourne, and if you look just down there, you can see how they've had to put in a much higher alignment over the Alderbourne and over the motorway. So I'm going to follow this path down here. We're going to go and go to that bridge, and as I said, I've got my tape measure. I'm going to measure it because I want to know exactly how high it is. The height does vary slightly from one side to the other, but I genuinely think it might be the lowest bridge on any public right of way in the UK. So let's go down there and find it. I'll just come along the bridal way. The motorway is just there, as you can probably hear. Here is the River Colmbrook. Now as for the Alderbourne, it literally joins it. I can't show it to you because it's on private land, rather. It's literally just behind these bushes here. There. That's where the confluence is. But as you can see, you can't really see a lot because there's a fence. And then on this side is the M25. So this bridge, which is a public footpath, is very, very, very low. I reckon it's got to be the lowest bridge on the public right of way. Look. So I'm going to get the tape measure out and say, well, look, this is me. That is the bridge. It clearly says, footpath to Archbridge. Well, look, I'm having to go so low. It's just a bit ridiculous. But I think this possibly is the lowest footbridge. What I'm going to do now is get my tape measure out and see just how low this bridge is. So let's find out exactly how low this bridge is. So from the bottom of the path to the top of the bridge, in old money, it's 30 inches or 76 centimetres. So let's say it's two foot six inches. That's the same width as the track on the Wellsport and Lanfair Railway, Sittingbourne and Kemsley Railway and Whipsnade Zoo Railway. So I think, if you're ever at any of those railways, you look at the track and think there's a bridge the same height as the width of those tracks. So this is very low. I think further down, it probably does get taller, which we'll soon find out. We will measure the other side. But I don't think there can possibly be a lower bridge from this. But what I'm going to do now is crawl underneath it. Oh, I'm now going to crawl under. So I'm at that lowest bit, the two foot six inch height bit. It does immediately get a little bit higher. So at the moment, I am having to crawl because that's how low it is. As it gets slightly higher, so now I can kind of crouch and walk. So I don't get my trousers too dirty, but put it this way. You're pretty much initially really short. So as in initially a child, you pretty much have to be prepared to crawl at one point. It's quite nice seeing that calm and so calm and the reflection of the top of the bridge. Now when I get halfway through, there is a slightly taller bit. I think it's, as I'm going this way, it's getting slightly, slightly taller. But I've got to be really careful. It's starting to bang my head. And now here, here it gets lower. And then here it's dark. This is in the middle and needs some light. We have lights. So this is a funny bit. We're in the middle of the two carriageways. So at this point, I can stand up and I've got plenty of head room, but not a lot of room either way. It'd be a squeeze if there was more than one person here. Not a good place to go if you don't like spiders, the cameras are going to pick them out, but there's loads of spiders and flies and stuff. So don't come down if you don't like spiders. If anyone's ever tried fishing in here, because it's quite a nice secluded spot. And I'd always be interested how many people actually do walk along this footpath, or walk all along this footpath further back there. Not that many, although I have seen, when I came down here, I did the Alderbourne after the bridge. I did see a gentleman walking towards it, whether he actually went through or not remains a mystery. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to get back down and we can see light, again daylight at the other end. I'm going to make my way to the other end of the bridge. We're going to measure it at that end. It's going to be taller at that end, but just just for fun. We might as well measure it and see what it's like at that end. So here we are at the other end of this ridiculously low bridge. It's obviously quite a bit higher at this end, but still lower than most other bridges on a pump right away. So let's find out exactly what we're talking about this time. Okay, so it is in metric, it's 145 centimetres, so more than a metre this time. In imperial, it's 57 inches, so 4 foot 9 inches. So half an inch wider than the standard gauge railway lines. If you like, we've gone from and the 2 foot 6 of railways like the world's fourth landfare to half an inch wider than standard gauge railways. What I'm going to do now though, I'm going to follow the Colm Brook towards Uxbridge and to the point where it actually comes off the River Colm. So I'm pretty sure this is the lowest bridge on any public right away. So certainly the lowest bridge I've ever been under. Just one other thing. I noticed that every camera's going to pick it out, but just see Fp and then I. So it must have once said footpath to Iver, because obviously the other inches footpath to Uxbridge or Iver Heath. But it looks like it's been graffitied, then they've painted over the graffiti, but there is actually supposed to be a sign there. So as for the footpath now, now it leaves the low bridge, although it's not quite so low at this end behind, because up here you can only see the footpath sign turning away. And if you were going the other way, you get a bit of a surprise. Now just after recording that last clip, I went back through the bridge to take the fun there, let me show you this video. And I'll tell you what, it is very hard work going through there in the opposite direction because although you're going downstream, the path is going uphill. So it gets narrow and narrow. And it gets to a point where you feel you can't crouch anymore and you just have to crawl. And it's probably not the cleanest of places. So what's even here on this track is private property over the bridge. Obviously that's the M25. As for the footpath, well nothing quite as exciting, but it takes on a bit of an interesting route. The private driveway goes that way. We're going to go up here and we'll follow the Conebrook. So you can see a clear footpath through here, which will take us towards Uxbridge and the River Cone, where the River Cone and the Conebrook Park Company. So it's completely changed character now. As I said, that's the driveway down there. We're just going to continue along Conebrook's down there. And soon we've been up for just one other thing I was going to mention. I don't know too much about it, but there was once some narrow gauge railways over there when all of this was gravel pits. Maybe a video for another day. I'm not sure at this stage. I've just got to keep following this path really. It's like I said, I don't think that many people walk down there, but it's nicely cleared. So you know, you can see the way if you want to come along or maybe you just want to come along up to the bridge and not go under it just to see the lowest bridge. But I'm going to continue down there and soon we shall get a better view of the Cone and the Conebrook. So I've now come along this winding path following the banks of the Conebrook. We're almost back at the Slough Road. You can just see the bridge there and over the other side is Uxbridge. So for the majority of this video, we've been in Buckinghamshire. We're still in Buckinghamshire, but once we cross the Cone and the Conebrook, we will be in Greater London. So that's how close we are, we're just outside London. I believe the Cone at this point forms the boundary between Buckinghamshire and Greater London. There was a funny bit here. I noticed when I did the older Bourne one, it seems this is the original footpath. The newer footpath takes you out that gate just there. But the older footpath, complete with sign, has been sort of blocked off for some reason. Not that I can see a problem or reason why it needs to be blocked off. So here is the Cone and Conebrook. Have a look at this. So look, it clearly says public footpath, but there's this here. Maybe this, if you can't get under this, you can't get under the low bridge. That's the only reason I can think for this thing here. So under I go, that was very, very easy compared to going under a motorway. And here we come across the River Cone and the Conebrook. As you can see, we're on the Slough Road still. And it's at this point here, that is the Conebrook. And the other side of Weepin Willow is where the main course of the River Cone goes. And as soon as we come off this bridge, we'll be in Uxbridge, London Borough of Hillingdon. So from the River Cone, I hope you enjoyed this video under what I think has to be one of the lowest bridges ever. If you do know of a lower bridge on a public right-of-way, so it's got a bridge that you can walk under that is on a public right-of-way. If you know of a lower one, one that's lower than 2 foot 6 inches, please do comment and tell me. I would really love to see it. I might even just go there as long as it's not like miles and miles away. But if it's in London and the home counties, then there's no reason why I wouldn't go there. So yeah, if you know of a lower bridge, please do comment and tell me. I'd love to know if that really is the lowest bridge on a public right-of-way in Great Britain, if not the world. Anyway, from clearly Uxbridge, or technically this is probably Cowley, but Uxbridge and Cowley, London Borough of Hillingdon, Greater London. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. Goodbye.