Building record 1420200000 - Milestone on old A413

Eighteeth or nineteenth century milestone on Lower Road in Chalfont St Peter, formerly the A413. On Milestones Society survey website recorded as present in 2003 on Uxbridge to Amersham route National ID number BU_LC20. On west side of road, just south of Claydon on ivy covered bank, almost covered by soil. 40cm wide, 37cm deep, 57cm high. Inscription: front : LONDON 20 CHALFONT ST PETER 1 [Detailed description, location and photograph] (B1).
Shown on 1814 OS surveyor's drawing and 1835 OS 1-inch county map (sheet XLVIII). Inscription: London 20. On Amersham to Denham route. Milestone type: Stone. Flat face parallel to road. 4 sided, angled to road, lettered on 2 sides. Shown on 1835 OS 1-inch map, Bryant and Jefferies county maps. No mention of milestones in Turnpike Trust Minutes up to 1808. 1741 Geo. II c 15 Cont. Act - Milestones to be erected. Trust minutes: 1808 Mr Herring to be paid when [mile]stones properly and rightly spelt are placed. 1810 50 Geo.III - Road to be measured, milestones and posts to be erected. G9.1. 1823 John King to measure the Turnpike road and prepare a map or plan for use of the Trustees [Document T3/51in Public Record Office]. 1829 Proper hand posts to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon. January 1834 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. July 1834 Measure distance from the 18th milestone on Oxford road….to ascertain where respective milestones (to Buckingham) ought to stand. 24th March 1835 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. 1858 Milestones to be painted. G1.2. March 1868 Surveyor to report of state of milestones and cost of putting them in good order. October 1868 Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones; Mr Hodgkins at 3/- per stone accepted. 1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired throughout. (B2).