Building record 1357000000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A413 Buckingham to Aylesbury Road at Hanover Farm Addington. One of 14 possible milestones on this road (two missing between Buckslow Farm and Whitchurch) recorded by V.F.Bignell [ Bletchley Archaeological and Historical Society ] in January 1964. Mostly grey brown stone, flat faces, chamfered edges and rounded tops. Inscription incised and painted black. 37 inches high on west side of road. [ Drawings, description and location card consulted in HER] (B1).
Recorded as present in 2002 on Milestones Society website on Aylesbury to Buckingham route A413 National ID number BU_LC52. 27cm wide 39cm deep 92cm high. On south side of road. 'Near Hanover Farm, carved bench mark and lots of lichen on top'. Inscription: left : BANBURY 22 BUCKINGHAM 5 : right : LONDON 52 AYLESBURY12 WINSLOW 1. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814) and OSD 1'' map (1835) from Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 13 sheet XII on page 1 and 2 of notes. Inscription: London 52. 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 side". Note O.S. maps will show present positions- may not concide with historical positions. Also in same notes under " MILESTONES ( In site 1986 except ? ) and in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1".On second page under N. from London in blue. In Jefferies, Bryant and OS 1" 1835. 52: Hanover Hall/ Farm L in pencil. In same notes under " C in red box : Milestones ". Sketch of stone with 22 at bottom : 52 London ? Banbury ? 20 12 Aylesbury. See Banbury above. In same notes under Milestones and C in red box. In pencil [No milestones mentioned 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.G.9. 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 paintd 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 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. 1832 Asking Mr. King for variations in distance on Wendover/Buckingham road by shortening at Padbury Br. And at Swanbourne turnng.W.and B. Trust/ Dup.Wis. 1834 Jan. The Clerk to "write to the Clerk of Oak Lane Trust stating that varius improvements bt 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 18th milestone on Oxford road…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 Length of T.P. road 21m. 2furs. 110yds.Dup.Wis. 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 re-writing milestones - Mr Hodgkins ; at 3/- per stone, accepted.TM. 1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired throughout".TM. [ Handwritten notes consulted in HER ] (B3).
According to Peter Gullands extensive study of The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017 this is on the The Wendover and Buckingham Turnpike Road 1721 road 5 p.99. This was 21 miles long and all in Bucks it stretched from the junction of Aylesbury and Wharf Road Wendover to Bridge Street just to north of London Rosd in Buckingham. These were stone pyramidal top with carved inscriptions on faces facing road. These are modern records out of 116 out of a possible 230 milemarkers in the county from old sources. These stones were never replaced en masse so their replacements that do not match there are 15 left 10 on western side and 5 scattered randomly on east side of road. During WW2 milemarkers thoughout the country were moved for security reasons sometimes not replaced or put back in same place. After the Trusts closed in the 1880s and 1890s on some roads parish or county or district replaced missing milemarkers with what the Miletones Society calls Bucks Pressings standardised metal posts with two white faces and black inscriptions. On Jefferys map of 1766 there are 21 mileposts on the road after an act to get the milestones done.They then moved all the milestones 330 yards north because of shortening of distance to London fom trusts further south in 1835.There was a milestone London 57 at junction at Broughton Road Buckingham the then vanished after 1835. [Copy in HER] (B4)