Building record 1418300000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A413 on Wendover Road in Aylesbury. By pedestrian crossing next to Bedgrove estate. Recorded on Milestones Society survey website updated in 2010 as present in 2003. National ID number BU_LC39 on Amersham to Aylesbury route. On south side of road. 28cm wide 28cm deep 59cm high. Inscription: left: LONDON 39 MISSENDEN : front: LONDON 39 AYLESBURY 1. [ Detailed description, photograph and location available ] (B1).
Supported by micofiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and County Map (1835 ) Wendover to Aylesbury (C4) route. Bucks County Museum number xxxiii sheet 33 on page 4 of notes now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Inscription: Aylesbury 1: London 39. Also in same notes under Milestones-Types '"1/2 Mile from River Colne to Aylesbury - C2,C3,C4. 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 position - may not coincide with historical positions. In same notes under "MILESTONES ( In site 1986 except ? ) and in red C1/2/3/4//5/6/7 L1." On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies .39: Bedgrove turning L in blue. On All Historic Layers database this milestone is south of current OS but this matches 'stone' further N. 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 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 necessary. 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 post' to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon.TM. 1831 £:8:0 to stonemason for "new facing and engraving milestones".TM. 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. 1834 Jan.The Clerk to "write to the Clerk of Oak Lane Trust stating that various improvements by shortening the road have been made 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 the distance from the 18th milestone on Oxford road… to ascertain where respective milesones (to Buckingham) ought to stand".TM. 1835 2 Mar. Wendover to Buckngham 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. Alternative site for MS on All Historic Layers Data base but does not coincide with present OS. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] B2