Building record 1418000000 - Milepost on A418

Summary

18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 at Haddenham

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (1)

  • MILEPOST (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD? to 1899 AD?)

Description

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 before Roundhills Farm on Aylesbury Road Haddenham just north of layby on south sde of road. National ID number BU_AYTH06 recorded on Milestones Society website in 2010 on Shillingford to Aylesbury route.. Present in 2002 but ' sunken, top removed by hedge trimmer '. 49.5cm wide 24cm deep 5cm high. Inscription: left: TO THAME 4 : right: TO AYLES-BURY 6 : top: HADDENHAM PARISH. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ]. (B1)
Confirmed by handwritten notes on 1" County Map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 32 sheet XXXII on page 3 of notes. Thame to Chearsley, Westlington and Dinton (N2) route. Inscription: Ayl 6 Thame 4. In same notes under Milestones and N in red box. 1810 50 Geo. IIII 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 to 1830s" cast Iron MPs, made by Seymour, Aylesbury, and "probably made 1820s or 1830s." " Renewal Act of 1971 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, mileposts annd makers, and illus.(Haddenham). "Ayl. 1 - Thame 9" - M.P. now in B.C.M. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC23398 Digital archive: Milestones Society Web V:1.2. Milestones in pre-1974 county Buckinghamshire. BU_AYTH06.
  • <2>SBC24230 Unpublished document: Dr Gimson. Undated. Manuscript notes on milestones compiled by Dr Gimson. museum no 32 sheet XXXII page 3.

Location

Grid reference SP 73918 10056 (point)
Civil Parish HADDENHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 31 2021 5:35PM

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