Building record 1342700000 - Milestone on A40

Grade II. Milestone. Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century. Shown on map of 1799. Squared stone with pyramidal top. Inscriptions read: facing road 'Uxbridge 3', facing east 'London 18 Oxford 36 Beaconsfield 5' and facing west '18 miles from London'. This milestone was turned round through 90 degrees in 1994 following re-surfacing work to the pavement (B1).
Recorded as present in 2001 on A40 Uxbridge to Stokenchurch route National ID number BU_LW18. On the north side of the road at Tatling End outside Capswood office block, opposite Ugly Duck PH. 45cm wide, 38cm deep, 118cm high. Presumably reset when office block built in 2001. Inscription: left: 18 MILES from LONDON: front: Uxbridge 3: right: London 18 Oxford 16 Beaconsfield 5. [Detailed description, location and photograph] (B2).
Shown on 1814 OS surveyor's draft drawing, 1835 1-inch OS map and Bryant and Jefferies county maps. Milestone 18 on A40 Beaconsfield to Denham route at Tatling End towards Uxbridge, south of Phoenix Garage. Inscription: London 18. 1825 Bryant map shows milestones 16-34 from West Wycombe to Bushy Leys; 1788 Jefferys map shows milestones 16- 34; 1835 1-inch OS map shows milestones 16 - 37 (alteration of county boundary); 1885 6-inch OS map shows milestone positions with mileages (B3).
This milestone is on The Red Hill and Beaconsfield Turnpike Road of 1751. Milestones were in place by 1763 from London 23 in New Denham to London 16 in Beaconsfield. There were 8 originally on the north side of the road, 7 of which survive. Trust milestones are square cross section with pyramidal top, small flat summit 2 or 3 faces with one set parallel to road. Incised lower case lettering with distances to London and Uxbridge and Beaconsfield, Wycombe and Oxford. There were originally 230 milemarkers in Bucks, but now 116 survive (B4).
Milestone was broken into three pieces in a traffic accident in early 2025 and subsequently removed for safekeeping and repair (B5).