Building record 1352100000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century milestone beside A413 between Little Missenden and Amersham. Slightly lozenge shaped stone pillar height 21 to 25 inches and 12 by 13 by 15 inches deep with chamfered top. Reported as present and in good condition in 1995. Incised inscription with black paint: LONDON 27 AMERSHAM PARISH on side facing road. May be some markings on back but indistinct. Photograph of back face not possible. The milestone is at side of dual carriageway. No suitable height to record on modern OS map for this NGR. [ Drawings, location and photographs available ] (B1).
Recorded as present on Milestones Socity website on Amersham to Aylesbury route National ID number BU_LC27.'Must have been reset when road duelled'. Between Lay -by and roundabout on north side of road. 38cm wide 30cm deep 53cm high. Inscription: front: LONDON 27 AMERSHAM PARISH. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and notes on OS 1 inch map (1835) all from Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number XLII sheet 43 on Wendover to Amersham and Chalfont route (C3/2) page 5 of notes. Inscription: London 27. In same notes 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 in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1." On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 27: Shardeloes.In same notes under "C in a red box: Milestones ". Sketch blank stone 27 London. Also under Milestones and 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 [See T3/51-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 raod have been and the Tustees, 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….TM. 1834 July "…. Measure distance from 18th milestone on Oxford road…. To ascertain where respective milestones (to Buckingham) ought to stand ".TM. 1835 24th March " …. 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. GI.2.1868 March Surveyor to report on state of milestones and "cost of putting them in good order".TM. 1868 October Tenders for repairing and rewriting 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 VE. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
In Peter Gullands extensive book on The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1006-1881 with their connections into neighbourindg counties 2017.