Building record 1470100000 - Milestone on A5

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century milestone beside A5 Watling Street Great Brickhill may be missing as not on current OS and not recorded by more recent surveys. Shown on OS surveyor's draft drawings (1814) and on OS 1" County map (1835, sheet XX). Inscription noted in 1814 is London 41 Brickhill 2. 1835 inscription does not tally - 44. In 1744 Trustees order payment for setting up milestones on the road. T.M. underlined in red. 1788 Jefferys ( nos 42 - 52 ). 1825 Bryant (nos 42 - 52 ). 1885 O.S.6" - positions marked + mileages written in. 1966 " On the road from Dunstable to Old Stratford (A5) can be found examples of cast iron plates on stones ( Illustration F ). Sometimes plates were used to replace old and worn inscriptions altough there is no evidence of these been the case in these stones. The combination of iron and stone made use of the better properties of both materials - stone standing up well to impact and iron lettering resisting the weather and remaining legible longer than small incised letters in very exposed positions." G. Folder 5. underlined in red. Ref. underlined in red: Bucks Life (Nov 1966) R.I.E. Haynes. For further information see also : - underlined in red. Milestones of Watling Street - Pat Mortimer - Country Life 6. 4. 1989. Buckinghamshire Milestones - R.I.E. Haynes - Bucks Life Nov 1966. Attached to C7 and L1 BCC Engineers Dept (Maintainance Division) Mr Hoxley and Highways Superintendant Mr Churchwood promised to look at stones ,report missing plates to police and try to arrange for replacements to be made. Also said that other plates had been stolen on A5 and A422 towards N.Pagnell. AHB 31 March ' 89. [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 Hockliffe and Stony Stratford Turnpike Road 1706 p.63 road 5.The first government financed road was early turnpiked improvement because of important route to Holyhead. Original milemarkers may be represented by a record on a 1731 estate map in Sheep Lane Potsgrove. ? Early set ofmilemarkers after 1744 the trust surveyed its road in 1745 from 38 miles to London northwest of Hockliffe to 52 miles south eastern edge Stony Stratford. In 1830 to 1840 some were replaced by a standard design introduced by Telford for the whole Holyhead road. Stone slabs rectangular cross section gable top and iron plate wih raised capital lettering on front faces. Plates all missing except in Milton Keynes replaced by alloy; stones turned round. One in Stony Straford missing but along the whole route 11 still in place 5 Telford original 5 with tops dating frm 1745 and one concrete replacement.This is part of a system of milemarkers in Bucks there were 230 in records 116 survive in modern records. During WW2 some were removed for security and not put back or replaced wrongly. After the trusts closed in 1880s and 1890s the Transport Authorities district or council or parish replaced any missing or damged milestones with standardised metal casting that the Milestones Society calls Bucks Pressing.Two white faces with black ink writing. [Copy in HER] (B2).