Building record 1356900000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century milestone recorded on the A413 at the Adstock Turn by V.J. Bignell (Bletchley Archaeological and Historical Society) in January 1964. One of 14 possible milestones (two missing between Buckslow Farm and Whitchurch) on the Aylesbury to Buckingham Road. Mostly grey brown stone, flat faces, chamfered with rounded tops. Inscription incised with letters painted black.This one has different cross section, recorded as milepost on OS map. On west side of the road 38 inches high. 4 inch square depression in top and bench mark. [ Drawings, description and location card consulted] (B1).
Recorded as present in 2002 on Milestones Society website on Aylesbury to Buckingham route A413 National ID number BU_LC53. On south side of road. 'South of Adstock near footpath on grass verge'. ' Carved benchmark top right moss on top and base'. 25cm wide, 25cm deep, 81 cm high. Inscription: left face: BANBURY 21 BUCKINGHAM 4 :right face: LONDON 53 AYLESBURY 13 WINSLOW 2. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814) from Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 13 sheet XII on page1 of notes. Inscription: London 53. On Buckingham to Winslow (C6) route. In same notes under Milestones - Types " N. Aylesbury to Buckingham - C5,C6. Stone- 5 sided. 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 second page under blue N, of London. On Jefferies, Bryant and OS1" 1835. 53: S. of Adstock. L in pencil. In same notes under "C in red box Milestones". Sketch of stone: 53 at top 13 at bottom: 53 London 13 Aylesbury. (19 Banbury at Padbury ). In same notes 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 MSSs to be erected.TM. 1808 Mr. Herring to be paid when "[mile]stones porperly and rightly spelt are placed".TM. 1810 50 Geo. III Rd. to be measured MSs and posts to be erected.G9.I. 1822 (July) Surveyor to give directions for Cast Iron Mile Posts on the road from Buckingham to Wendover, and guide posts where necessary.TM. But see below in red. 1822 (Oct.) 1. Surveyor to give directions for Mile Stones on "said road" to be fresh painted and letters fresh cut where necessary. 2. Guide Posts to be all new painted and new posts where necessary.TM. 1823 John King to measure the T.P. road and prepare a map or plan for the use of the Trustees.[See T3/51- P.R.O.]TM. 1828 Measure of road from Wendover to Buckingham 21m. 2f. 121yds.TM. 1829 ' Proper hand posts' to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon.TM. 1832 Asking Mr. King for variations in distance on Wendover/Buckingham road by shortening at Padbury Br.and at Swanbourne turning.W.and B. Trust/Dup.Wis. 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 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…".TM. 1834 July " ….measure distance from 28th milestone on Oxford raod…to ascertain where respective milestones (to Buckingham) ought to stand".TM. 1835 2 Mar. Wendover to Buckingham 22m.Dup.Wis. 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. 1848 1 June Lenth of T.P. road 21m. 2fur. 110yds.Dup.Wis. 1858 MSs to be painted.GI.2. 1868 March Surveyor to report on sate 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 repaired "throughout".TM. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3)
In Peter Gullands extensive study of The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire and their connections into neighbouring counties 2017. This milestone is on The Wendover and Buckingham Turnpike Road 1721 p.99 road 5. These were pyramidal topped stones with 2 faces with encgraveded lettrs in roman capitals. The Be trust was slow to put in milestones so needed an extra act jefferies showed a;ll there. The were never replaced emmasse so there are odd raplaxementa. !5 left 10 on rnorth of road 5 on ranomly scattered on L. The road stretched from junction of Aylesbury Road and Wharf Road Wendoer to just north of ridge Stree Bucking. They were all mived when atrust to the south shortened is distance to London. During WW2 milemarkes thoghout the contry were sometimes or buried for security reasons then sometimes mot put back or put back in wrong place. After the trusts claosed in 1880s nd 1890s missing milemarkers were replaced on some roads by paris or county or district with what the Milestoneds Society calls Bucks OpRessing standardised metal posts wth white faces and black inscriptions. [Copy in HER] (B4).