Building record 1351300000 - Milestone on A413

Eighteenth or nineteenth century milestone beside A413 north of Wendover. Squared stone pillar 27-30 inches high and 12 inches deep with chamfered top with incised OS benchmark. Incised inscription with black paint 'TO LONDON 36' on side facing road and 'TO AYLESBURY 4 MILES' on north side. The milepost appears to have been rotated or moved across the road as the Aylesbury inscription is facing towards Aylesbury. [Drawings, location and photographs] (B1).
Recorded on Milestones Society survey website as present in 2003. National ID number BU_LC36 on Amersham to Aylesbury route. On A413 on Aylesbury Road, Wendover outside recreation ground. On east side of road. 29cm wide, 29cm deep, 71cm high. 'Marked pitting of base'. Inscription: left: TO AYLESBURY 4 MILES : front: TO LONDON 36. [Detailed description, photograph and location] (B2).
Shown on 1814 OS Surveyor's draft drawing and 1885 OS 6 inch map. Also Shown on 1835 1-inch OS map and Jefferies and Bryant county maps. On Aylesbury to Wendover Road, N of Wendover at Level Crossing Gate. No mention of milestones in Turnpike Trust Minutes up to 1808. 1741 Geo. II c 15 Cont. Act - Milestones to be erected. Trust minutes: 1808 Mr Herring to be paid when [mile]stones properly and rightly spelt are placed. 1810 50 Geo.III - Road to be measured, milestones and posts to be erected. G9.1. July 1822 Surveyor to give directions for cast iron mile posts on the road from Buckingham to Wendover, and guide posts where necessary. October 1822 Surveyor to give directions for mile stones on road to be fresh painted and letters fresh cut where necessary. Guide posts to be all newpainted and new posts where necessary. 1823 John King to measure the Turnpike road and prepare a map or plan for use of the Trustees [Document T3/51in Public Record Office]. 1829 Measure of road from Wendover to Buckingham 21miles, 2furlongs, 121yards. Proper hand posts to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon. 1831 £8:8:0 to stone mason for 'new facing and engraving milestones' (Treas.A/cs.- Wendover and Oakham Trust). 1832 Asking Mr King for variations in distance on Wendover-Buckingham road by shortening at Padbury Bridge and at Swanbourne turning. January 1834 The Clerk to write to the Clerk of Oak Lane Trust stating that various improvements by shortening the road have been made and the Trustees, presuming that similar improvements have been made on the Oak Lane Trust, wish to be informed whether the milestones on the Oak Lane Trust have been placed accurately from the last mile-stone on the Oxford Road. July 1834 Measure distance from the 18th milestone on Oxford road….to ascertain where respective milestones (to Buckingham) ought to stand. 2nd March 1835 Wendover to Buckingham 22miles. 24th March 1835 the present milestones in this Trust be taken up, and new faced and lettered and painted, and direct they measure the turnpike road from the 18th milestone on the Uxbridge road from London. 1st June 1848 Length of turnpike road 21miles, 2furlongs, 110yards. 1858 Milestones to be painted. G1.2. 1863 Hand posts by the World's End at Wendover to be painted. March 1868 Surveyor to report of state of milestones and cost of putting them in good order. October 1868 Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones; Mr Hodgkins at 3/- per stone accepted. 1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired throughout (B3).
In Peter Gullands extensive study on The Toll Roads of Bukinghamshire1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017.This is on The Wendover and Oak Lane Turnpike Road 1751 Road 8 p 125. 300 yards north of original location because re-sited in 1835 following shortening of road futher south. Trust's milestones are square with pyramidal top inscription on two faces placed at angle to road trianglar wedge in back. Incised capital letters give distance to London. Not all on same side of road as maybe not replaced properly after WW2. After the trusts closed in 1880s or 1890s in Bucks missing milemarkers were replaced by parish or distrct or county on some roads with standard metal mileposts with 2 white faces and black lettering that the Milestones Society calls Bucks Pressings .According to PG one of 116 modern records in the county out of 230 milemarkers from old sources. During WW2 milemarkers through out country were buried or removed for security reasons somerimes not repaced in correct orientaation. [Copy in HER] (B4)