Building record 1417800000 - Milepost on A418

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milepost or milestone on A418 at Hulcott is missing. Recorded as Mile Stone on current OS map. National index number BU_AYLB03 on Milestones Society website 2010 last recorded in1970. On Aylesbury to Leighton Buzzard route. Inscription: top: Hulcott: Leighton 71/2: Hockliffe 11: Aylesbury 3. [Limited description] (B1).
Confirmed by handwritten note on OS 1" (1835) Bucks sheet XXIX page 3 of notes. Inscription: Ayl 3 LB 71/2. On Aylesbury to L Buzzard (N1) route. In same notes "N1. Milestones on Ground". NGR 845 169. Parish Hulcott. Number 1 OS 3. In same notes under N in red box Milestones. 1810 50 Geo. III c. 74. Road to be measured and MSs to be set up. (Ayl.- Hockliffe) (?TMs) in pencil. Blue Folder 1 underlined in red. 1821 MPs to be set up - Ayl. (Black Swan) to West Chester Road. Blue Folder 1 underlined in red." 1820s or 1830s " Cast iron MPs, made by Seymour, Aylesbury, and " probably made 1820s or 1830s." " Renewal Act of 1791 made mention of provision of MPs " [ Ayl. - Shillingford, Oxon.].In pencil ? Where - " see photos of first and second MPs from Aylesbury". " Worksheet", Euro. 10 underlined in red.1966 Extract; ' Bucks- Life', Nov. - Bucks. Milestones, R.I.Haynes - A418, mileposts and makers, and illus. ( Haddenham ). "Ayl.1 - Thame 9" - M.P. now in B.C.M. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).
A local farmer and historian (now deceased) remembered it in situ.
According to Peter Gullands extensvive study of The Toll Roads of Buckingamshire 1706-1881 this milepost was on The Aylesbury Thame and Shillingford Turnpike Road 1770 p.193. This road is now the mostly in Bucks the A418. it statrted from Aylesbury the juction of Gatehouse Road Oxford Road and Friarage Road to the Thame bypass. There were 3 branches from Thame also managed by the Trust but mostly no longer in Bucks. It took the trust a while to put up posts and they weren't done by the reactment act. In 1791. By the OS map there were 8 between Thame and Aylesbury. 16 and a half miles were oginally in Bucks. By 1813 the mileage to London of 39 started just outside Aylesbury as a continuation of the Sparrows Herne trust distance from London starting at Watford. Sometime beteen 1824 and 1836 the trust replaced stones by cast iron mileposts with raised lettering made by Seymour of Aylesbury. New mileage measured from central Aylesbury to central London.There are 4 left in Bucks 3 between Aylesbury and Thame on south side road one in the County Museum. During WW2 markers were removed for security reasons sometimes not put back or placed wrong.This one of 116 milemarkers of a possble 230 from historical sources in Bucks. [Copy HER](B3).