Building record 1432800000 - Milestone on A40

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A40 north of Stokenchurch south of Kiln Farm. Possibly missing as not reorded on other milestone surveys in Bucks. On north east side of road not on current OS maps but confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and OS 1 inch (1835) Oxford to W. Wycombe route (B5) page 5 of notes. Bucks County Museum number XLI sheet 41 now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Inscription: London 37 : Oxford 17. Position estimated from County 1 Inch 1835. In same notes under J in red box. Milestones. 1825 Bryant - Marked from W. Wycombe to Bushey Leys. Also under B in red box. Milestones. 1788 Jefferys - nos. 16 - 34. 1825 Bryant - nos, 16 - 34. 1835 O.S. 1" - . Nos. 16 - 37 (alteration of county boundary). See also underlined in blue. 1814 O.S.D. Surveyors Drawings . (microfiche) Mileages written on map. 1885 O.S. 6" - positions marked + mileages written in. R.I.E. Haynes - " Bucks Milestones" Extract ' Bucks Life' (Nov. 1966). [Handwritten notes consulted in HER] (B1).
According to Peter Gulland in The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017. This was on The Beaconsfield and Stokenchurch Turnpike Road1 1719 road 4 p.91 from west of Beaconsfield Old Town to west of Marlow Road Stokenchurch. 13 stones on the Jefferys map. They were set at an angle to the road. Some were not replaced after the war or put in the wrong place or the wrong way round.This trust was 12.5 miles long and all in Bucks. 9 exist today with roman letters then changed to english some time after 1744 on the 2 back faces. When the trusts closed in 1880s and 1890s highway authorities replaced missing milemarkers on some roads with what Milestones Society calls Bucks pressings standard metal posts with 2 white faces and black paint writing. Part of important medieval highway now mosly A40 bypased at High Wycome and Piddington and Dashwood Hill for example. According to PG this one of 116 modetn records out a possible 230 milemarkers from sources. [Copy in HER]