Building record 1352400000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century milestone beside A413 between Amersham and Chalfont St Giles. Recorded in handwritten note with records of stone 11? in reference below.' Very damaged and obscured by brambles'. (B1).
Recorded on Milestones Society website as present in 2002 on A413 Uxbridge to Amersham route National ID number BU_LC24. 37cm wide 33cm deep 52cm high on grass verge on west side of road. 'Back damaged by grass cutter opposite Ivy PH close to Pollards Wood'. Inscription: front: LONDON 24 CHALFONT ST GILES. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Suveyors Drawings (1814) and OS 1 inch (1835) from Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Wendover to Amersham and Chalfont route (C3/C2). Museum number XLIII sheet 43 on page 5 of notes. Inscription: London 24. 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 in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1." On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 24: B= ' Rose + Crown ' Ivy Hse. In same notes under Milestones and C in red box. In pencil [ no mention of milestones in TM's up to 1808 ]1741 Geo.II c 15 Cont. Act - MS's to be errected. 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 Tustees [See T3/51- P.R.O.]. TM. 1834 Jan The Clerk to " write to the Clerks of Oak Lane Trust stating that various improvements by shortening the road have been made and the Tustees, presuming that similar improvements havs 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. G1.2.1868 March Surveyor to report on state of milestones and " cost of putting them in good order". TM.1868 October Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones _ Mr Hodgkins: at 3/- per stone, accepted. TM. 1871 Handposts to be painted and repainted "throughout". TM. 1966 Extract, ' Bucks Life ', Nov.- Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes, Tatling End to Amersham, c. 1750. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
According to Peter Gulland The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this milestone is on the The Wendover and Oak Lane Turnpike Road 1751 p.129. During WW2 milemarkers were moved for security reasons some were not returned or put back in wrong place occasionally. The road stretched from junction of Aylesbury Road and Wharf Road in Wendover to Tatling End. The milestones ran from London 19 south of Oak End at Chalfont St Peter to London 35 in South Street Wendover. Most were placed on alternate sides of the road but two stones in Amersham were on same side meaning they engineers met in the middle. 11 remain in place today square plan with pyramidal top. Inscription usually on one side facing road recarved in 1831 placed originally in 1751.[ Peter Gulland in HER ](B4).