Building record 1417900000 - Milepost on A418

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 in Aylesbury Road Haddenham. National ID number BU_AYTH05 on Milestones Society website on Shillingford to Aylesbury route in 2010. Recorded as present 2002 on south side of road close to telegraph pole. 92cm high,49.5cm wide 24cm deep.. Inscription: left: TO THAME 5 : right: TO AYLES- BURY 5 : top: HADDENHAM PARISH. [ Photograph, detailed description and location available ]. (B1)
Supported by microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814 ) Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies, number xxxiii sheet 33 page 4 of note. Thame to Aylesbury (N2) route . Inscription : Aylesbury 5 : Thame 5 : ? London 43. In same notes under Milestones and N in red box. 1810 50 Geo.III c. 74 Road to be measured and MSs to be set up (Ayl.- Hockliffe). In pencil (?TMs). Blue Folder 1. 1821 MPs to be set up - Ayl.(Black Swan) to West Chester Road. Blue Folder 1. "1820s or 1830s" Cast iron MPs, made by Seymour, Aylesbury, and "probably made 1820s or 1830s." " Renewal Act of 1891 made mention of provision of MPs" [Ayl.- Shillingford, Oxon]. In pencil ? Where - "See photos of first and second MPs from Aylesbury". Worksheet, Euro.10. 1966 Extract; 'Bucks. - Life', Nov.- Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes - A418, milepost and makers, and illus. (Haddenham). "Ayl.1 - Thame 9" - M.P. now in B.C.M. [Handwritten notes consulted] (B2)
According to Peter Gullands extensive study of he Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with thir connections into neighbouring counties 2017. This was on the The Aylesbury Thame and Shillingford Road three branches from Thame and just one to Aylesbury. No milemarkers on this route from Aylesbury to Thame mostly A418 today ends at Thame bypass.then rto bicester from thame and wheatley to oxfor. It wa late putting up milemarkers fom initial act 1770 it needed a renewal Act of 1791 by 1813 OS map showed 8 miletones in place between thame and Aylesbury but none between Thame and Shillingford. Mileage to London stared at 39 ootside Aylesbury following to milesge to London based on the more souther Sparrows Herne Trust p.163 road12 through Watford. At an unknown date between 1824 and 1836 milestones between Aylesbury and Thame were replaced with cast iron mleposts made by Seymour of Aylesbury with raised lettering a new mileage from Aylesbury rather than London. Mileposts appeared on he Shillingford branch at possibly same time.
The difrent mileages meant milemarkers needed o be halfwy between rthe existaing stones. Three posts survive all on sae side of road one in county museum and onestill outsde Oxordshire Golf club possibly not moved during WW2 where mileamarkers were removed through out the county for securty reasons. According to PG this is one of 1`116 modrern records out a possible 230 records in Bucks from old sources. After the trusts close in 1880s and 1890s missing milemarkers on some roads were positioned by parish or distrct or county stanard metal posts that the Milestones Society calla Bucks Pessings standard with 2 white faces and black lettering. [Copy in HER] (B3).