Building record 1358900000 - Milepost on A413
Summary
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 eighteenth or nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A413 in Duck Lane outside Buckingham Arms PH in Maids Moreton. On Milestones Society website updated 2010 as national ID number BU_BUTW01 on Buckingham to Towcester route, present in 2002. On west sde of road. 45cm wide 25cm deep 87cm high. 'This is a local building of note within the Maids Moreton conservation area'. Inscription: left side: BUCKINGHAM 1 MILE TOWCESTER 9 MILES: right side: TOWCESTER 9 MILES BUCKINGHAM 1 MILE. [ Photograph, detailed description and location] (B1).
Cast iron marker painted white. A Building of Note within the Conservation Area of Maids Moreton (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814 ). On Buckingham to Akeley route (G1). From Bucks County Museum sheet 13 museum number XIII/XII page 1 of notes now in Centre for Bucks Studies. [Handwritten notes] (B3).
In Peter gullands extensive of the Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706=1881 with their connections into neighbouringcounties 2017.
This is on The Buckingham and Towcester Turnpike Road 1824 road 23.this is a new trust formed after the Earl temple extened his park over usual road anddid niot repoace road. Travellers had to find there own way around his park.The trust set out to imrove route through lanes through Maids Moretonand Akeley so trust imroved these stars from junction of High Street and Moreton Road beside Bucking Goal ends juction of A413 and a43 two miles south west f Towcester.
Sources (4)
- <1>SBC23398 Digital archive: Milestones Society Web V:1.2. Milestones in pre-1974 county Buckinghamshire. BU_BUTW01.
- <2>SBC23642 Bibliographic reference: Aylesbury Vale District Council. 2009. Maids Moreton Conservation Area. Appendix IV, Heritage Asset No 22.
- <3>SBC24230 Unpublished document: Dr Gimson. Undated. Manuscript notes on milestones compiled by Dr Gimson. museum no. 13 sheet XIII/XII page 1.
- <4>SBC24947 Bibliographic reference: Peter Gulland. 2017. The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881: With their Connections into Neighbouring Counties. p.283 road 23.
Location
Grid reference | SP 7026 3548 (point) |
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Civil Parish | MAIDS MORETON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Jun 25 2024 1:38PM