Building record 1432500000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century milestone on A413 Wendover Road at Weston Turville, south of Triangle Business Park opposite Hideaway Farm. Possibly missing as not shown on current OS map. Inscription: London 37: Aylesbury 3. Shown on 1814 OS surveyor' draft drawing and 1835 1-inch OS map (sheet XXXIV) on Aylesbury to Wendover towards Amersham Road. Grid reference estimated from County first edtion map. Milestone type of stone, flat face parallel to road, 4 sided, lettered on 2 sides. Also shown on Bryant and Jefferies county maps. Milestone 37: N of Terrick turning. A cement copy! 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. July 1822 Surveyor to give directions for cast iron mile posts on the road from Buckingham to Wendover, and guide posts where necessary. October 1822 Surveyor to give directions for mile stones on road to be fresh painted and letters fresh cut where necessary. Guide posts to be all newpainted and new posts where necessary. 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 Measure of road from Wendover to Buckingham 21miles, 2furlongs, 121yards. Proper hand posts to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon. 1831 £8:8:0 to stone mason for 'new facing and engraving milestones' (Treas.A/cs.- Wendover and Oakham Trust). 1832 Asking Mr King for variations in distance on Wendover-Buckingham road by shortening at Padbury Bridge and at Swanbourne turning. 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. 2nd March 1835 Wendover to Buckingham 22miles. 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. 1st June 1848 Length of turnpike road 21miles, 2furlongs, 110yards. 1858 Milestones to be painted. G1.2. 1863 Hand posts by the World's End at Wendover to be painted. March 1868 Surveyor to report of state of milestones and cost of putting them in good order. Milestone near Stoke Mandeville to be moved about 2ft; so it does not stand on footway. October 1868 Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones; Mr Hodgkins at 3/- per stone accepted. 1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired throughout (B1).
Recorded as missing on Milestone Society website (B2).
In Peter Gullands extensive work on the The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neghbouring counties 2017. This milestone was on The Wendover and Oak Lane Road 1751 p.129 part of the historic route from London to the Midlands now mostly A413. These milestones were stone squares with pyramidal top put alternate sides of road except in Amersham where on same side. During WW2 mileposts were removed or buried throughout the country sometimes put back in wrong place or not at all. There are 230 milemarkers in Bucks from old records this one of 116 records left in modern sources PG. When the toll road trusts closed down the Highway Authorities County or District or Parish took over maintaining the milemarkers. In some places these were standardised metal posts that the Milestone Society calls Bucks Pressings two white faces with black paint inscription.They ran from London 19 south of Oak End in Chalfont St Peter London 35 in South Street Wendover In 1831 the trust spent £17.07.0p.rengraving all 17 milestones 11 remain in place today. [Copy in HER] (B3)