Building record 1354900000 - Milepost on A4155

Summary

18th or 19th Century milepost on A4155 at Mill End Hambleden, may be missing

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • MILEPOST (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD? to 1899 AD?)

Description

Probable cast iron eighteenth to nineteenth century milepost missing Missing in 1995. 'Part of gout route'. On A4155 west of Medmenham. On current OS map. [ Location available ] (B1).
Reported as missing some time since 1991 on Milestones Society website updated in 2003 on Reading to Marlow route National ID number BU_RGHT11 .Was on south side of A4155 at Mill End Hambleden. Inscription was : top: Hatfield 40 : right : Reading 11 Henley 3 1/2 Marlow 4. Diamond shape.Wilder and Sons Reading. No dimensions recorded or co-ordinates. Is on OS map as milestome. [ Detailed description available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings and 1" OS map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number not clear ? 18 On ' All Historic Layers Database' as: Marlow 4 Henley 3. Also on page F of same notes under title "Gout Track" (ctd.). Number 4 on 1"OS 1835. Not found in 1987 MP on 1" OS. In same notes under F in red box Milestones. 1825 Bryant - from High Wycombe to Marlow only. 1820 Milestones replaced by mileposts. 1990 " milestones now gate posts at Flackwell Heath. See also underlined in red j.R. + K.E. field visit on a separate sheet. R.I.E. Haynes - Buckinghamshire Milestones. Kenneth Hunter - " Lord Salisbury's Gout Track ". Ref. underlined in red " Hertfordshire Countryside ". Vol 16. No 63. Winter 1961. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC19208 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Council. 1995. Chilterns AONB Milestone Survey. Stone 30.
  • <2>SBC23398 Digital archive: Milestones Society Web V:1.2. Milestones in pre-1974 county Buckinghamshire. BU_RGHT11.
  • <3>SBC24230 Unpublished document: Dr Gimson. Undated. Manuscript notes on milestones compiled by Dr Gimson. ? Museum no 18 sheet LI page 6 page F and F in red box Milestones.

Location

Grid reference SU 79235 84698 (point)
Civil Parish HAMBLEDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 31 2021 4:13PM

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