Building record 1358800000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A413 just by 154 Wendover Road, Weston Turville in garage forecourt in tarmac. Recorded on Milestones Society survey website updated in 2010 as present in 2002. National ID number BU_LC38 on Amersham to Aylesbury route. On east side of road. 'Edge on to road'. 29cm wide 31cm deep 48cm high just north of roundabout at junction with A4010. Inscription: left : LONDON 38 MISSENDEN 7: right: LONDON 38 AYLESBURY 2. [Detailed description, photograph and location available] (B1).
Supported by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and OS County 1 inch (1835) on Wendover to Aylesbury road (C4). Bucks County Museum sheet xxxiii number 33 now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Page 4. Inscription: Ayl 2 Lon 38. Also in same notes under Milestones Types '1/2 Mile from River Colne to Aylesbury. 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. Also under "MILESTONES ( In site 1986 except ? ) and in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7/ L1". On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 38: N.E. of W. Turville turn R. In same notes under Milestones with 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. 1822 July Surveyor to give directions for Cast Iron Mile Posts on the road from Buckingham to Wendover, and Guide Posts where necessary.TM. 1822 (Oct.) 1. Surveyor to give directions for Mile Stones on "said road" to be fresh painted and letters fresh cut where nescessary. 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 [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. 1831 £8:8:0 to stonemason for "new facing and engraving milestones".(Treas.A/cs . -Wend.and Oakham). 1832 Asking Mr. King for variations in distance on Wendover/Buckingham road by shortening at Padbury Br. and at Swanbourne turning. WandB.Trust/Dup.Wis 1833 Ordered that a 'new direction post' be put up in place of the one recently destroyed. [End of road leading to W.Turville- T.M. T3/10].TM. 1834 Jan. The Clerk to "write to the Clerk of Oak lane Trust stating that various improvements by shortening the road have been 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.2fur.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. 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.JE. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).
In Peter Gullands extensive volume on The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017 this is on The Wendover and Oak Lane Turnpike Road 1751 road 8 p.129. This road stretched from Aylesbury Road and Wharf Road in Wendover then southwards to junction of Oxford Road and South Lane Tatling End mostly A413 today. Milestones ran from London 19 south of Oak End at Chalfont St Peter to London 39 in South Street Wendover. Unusually consecutive stones were put alternate of road from start. These milestones were square had pyramidal top wih engraved letters on two faces installed fom two ends explains 2 in Amersham on same side road. In 1831 trustees spent money re engraving stones all 17 so stones today still have these later faces. During WW2 milemarkers throughout the County were moved or buried for security reasons sometimes bnot replacedor put back in wrong place. According to PG this a modern record of 116 out of a possible 230 from old sources. After trusts closed in 1880s and 1890s missing milemarkers on some roads were replaced with what the Milestones Society called Bucks Pressings by Parish or District or County.London 19 and and London 21 have 2 engraved faces with on back 1751 when installed eleven survive today. [HER] (B3)