Building record 1351600000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century milestone beside A413 south of Wendover. Encroached partially by hedge. Squared stone pillar 32 to 36 inches high and 13 by 14 inches deep. On front incised inscription with black paint: TO LONDON 33 MISSENDEN 2. [Drawings, location plan and photographs] (B1).
Recorded on Milestones Society survey website (updated 2010) as present in 2003. National ID number BU_LC33 on Amersham to Aylesbury route. On east side of A413 on London Road, Wendover Dean. 34cm wide, 30cm deep, 84cm high. 'Thick layers of paint peeling off'. Inscription: front: LONDON 33 MISSENDEN 2. [ Detailed description, photograph and location] (B2).)
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814 ) and 1" OS map (1835). Museum number 38 sheet XXXVIII page 4 of notes. Wendover to Amersham ( C4 + C3 ) route. Inscription: London 33. Also in same notes under Milestones-Types ' 1/2 Mile from River Colne to Aylesbury- C2,C3, C4. Stone. Flat face parallel to road. 4 -sided. Except - Bedgrove ( London 39 ) - angled to road, lettered on 2 sides.' Note O.S. maps will show present positions may not coincide with historical positions. In same notes under "MILESTONES ( In site 1986 except ? ) and red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1". On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 33: Bowood Lane : R in blue. In same notes under "C in red box: Milestones". Sketch of stone with 33 on it. 33 London. In same notes under Milestones with C in red box. In pencil { No mention of milestones in TMs up to 1808 ]. 1741 Geo.II c. 15 Cont.Act- MSs to be erected.TM.1808 Mr Herring to be paid when"[mile]stones properly and rightly spelt, are placed".TM. 1810 50 Geo.III- Rd. to be measured, MSs and posts to be erected.G9.1. 1823 John King to measure the T.P. road and prepare a map or plan for use of the Trustees [SeeT3/51- P.R.O.].TM. 1829 'Proper hand posts' to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon.TM. 1834 Jan. The Clerk to " write to the Clerk of Oak Lane Trust stating that various improvements by shortening the road have been made and the Tustees, presuming that similar improvements have been made on the Oak Lane Trust, wish to informed whether the milestones on the Oak Lane Trust have been placed accurately from the last mile-stone on the Oxford Road…".TM. 1834 July "…measure distance from 18th milestone on Oxford road ….to ascertain where respective milestones (to Buckingham) ought to stand".TM. 1835 24 Mar. " that 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".TM.1858 MSs to be painted.G1.2. 1868 March Surveyor to report on state of milestones and " cost of putting them in good order". 1868 October Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones- Mr. Hodgkins; at 3/- per stone, accepted.TM. 1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired "throughout".TM.1966 Extract, 'Bucks Life', Nov. - Bucks. Milestones, R.I.Haynes, " …. Original road…Amersham to Aylesbury… can be traced by milestones 30 and 31 at Missenden". In red Now on by-pass.JE. [Handwritten notes consulted in HER] (B3).
This milestone is on The Wendover and Oak Lane Turnpike Road 1751 p.129 in Peter Gulland's extensive study on The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring countuies 2017. Mostly A413 Oxford Road one of 116 mern records of a possible 230 milemarkers in Buckinghamshire from historical sources. Milestones ran from London 19 south of Chalfont St Peter south of Oak End to London 35 in South Street Wendover. Stones on alternate sides of road except at Amersham both on same side road possibly stones put up from opposite end. Square plan with pyramidal top inscription usually on one side only facing road they all had London on and Missenden on stones north of Great Missenden the parish they were in south of that village. During WW2 stones were removed for security reasons sometime not replaced or put in wrong place through out the country. In 1881 trustees spent £17 17s 0d. Reengraving the stones they were originally placed 1751. 11 survive today. After the toll road trusts closed the Highway Authorities parish or county or district replaced missing milemarkers in some places with what the Milestone Society calls Bucks Pressings standardised metal posts with two white faces and black paint inscriptions. [Copy in HER] (B4).