Building record 1466600000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A413. One of 14 possible milestones (two missing) between Buckingham and Aylesbury. On Bridge Srtreet Buckingham just north of New Inn PH. May be missing as not on current OS maps or more recent surveys but on 'All Historic Layers Map' inscription: London 57 Aylesbury 17.Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814) County Museum number 13 sheet XII now in Centre for Bucks Studies. On page 1 of notes Centre for Bucks Studies . On Buckingham to Winslow (C6) route. In same notes under " MILESTONES ( In site 1986 except ? ) and in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1 and overleaf in blue N. from London". On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 57: S. of Buckingham. ?. In same notes under Milestones and 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 the road from Buckingham to Wendover, and Guide Posts where necOessary.TM. But see below in red. 1822 1.Surveyor to give directions for Mile Stones on "said road" to be fresh painted and letters fresh cut where necessary. 2. guideposts 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. 1818 Measure of road from Wendover to Buckingham 21m. 2f. 121yds.TM. 1829 'Proper hand posts to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances mrked thereon -.TM. 1832 Asking Mr. King for variations in distance on Wendover/Buckingham road by shortening at Padbury Br. And at Swanbourne turning.W.and B.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,1834 J presuming that similar improvements have ben 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 distance from 18th milestone on Oxford road…to ascertain where respective milestones (to Buckingham) ought to stand".TM. 1835 2 Mar. Wendover to Buckingham 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. 2furs. 110yds.Dup.Wis. 1858 M.S.s 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. [Handwritten notes consulted in HER] (B1)
According to Peter Gullands extensive study of The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017. This is on The Wendover to Buckingham Turnpike Road 1721 p.99 road 5. Stretches from junction of Aylesbury Road and Wharf Road Wendover to Bridge Street Buckingham. Milestones initiated by initial act of 1742 Jefferys map shows a whole set of milestones from Aylesbury 36 in Aylesbury Road Wendover to London 56 near Tesco Buckingham. During WW2 through out country milemarkers were removed for security reasons sometimes not replaced or put back in wrong place. According to PG this one of 116 modern records out of possible 230 milemarkers in Bucks from historical sources. After the trusts closed in in 1880s and 1890s parish or district or county replaced missing milemarkers on some roads with what the Milestones Society calls Bucks Pressings standardised metal posts with two white faces and black lettering. This was on an important route to London extended eventually to Uxbridge under two new trusts see roads 7 and 8 in this publication. This 21 miles long all in this trust was formed in early 1751. [Copy in HER] (B2)