Building record 1433800000 - Milepost on A404

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century 'cast iron' metal milepost part of 'gout route' missing on Amersham Road west of Inkerman Farm Penn Parish. Not found in Chilterns Milestone Survey in 1995 or latest Milestones Society Survey updated in 2010. Not on current OS map but confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and one inch OSD Map (1835) Bucks County Museum number XLII sheet 42 now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Inscription:Amersham 4 Wycombe 3. On High Wycombe, Hazelmere, Amersham (F3/F4) route. On page 5 of notes. Recorded as not found but (on OS 1") on page F same notes title Mile Stones [Hatfield] Chenies to Henley -"Gout Track". Number 3 1" OS (1835). [Handwritten notes consulted in HER] (B1) .
Accoding to Peter Gullands extensive study The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 wih their connnections into neghbouring counties this milestone was on The Reading to Hatfield Turnpike Road 1767 p.175 road 13. It was 50 miles long 22 1/2 in Bucks orbiting north London it joins Reading and Hatfield thought to be due to the influence of Lord Cecil at Hatfield house and described as the gout route as a fellow sufferer from Watford Cassiobury Park travelled regularly to Bath. According to Peter Gulland this connection appears long after the trust.This road has broken up into several modern identies. The orginal milestones may predate the trust may have ben put up by Lord Cecil. They were thin flat stones domed top with lower case letters 5 surive 2 gateposts in Flackwell Heath 2 driveway ornaments in Terriers 1 in Chiltern Open Air Museum from Little Chalfont. In 1770 50 milestones with capial letteres were ordered. Then sometme in the early 19th century they were replaced by 50 cast iron mileposts wth raised letters. 3 of these survive in Bucks. According to sources there should be 230 milemarkers in Bucks records of 116 survive. During WW2 milemarkers were taken away for security and may be not replaced or in wrong place. After the trusts closed in the 1880s and 1890s highway authorities parish or district or county missing milemarkers were replaced by what the Milestones Society called Bucks Pressings standard metal posts two white faces and black writing. [Copy in HER]B2).