Building record 1470200000 - Milepost on A418

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 opposite Ascott House. Not on current OS but confirmed by handwritten notes on OS 1'' map (1835) was in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 24 sheet XXIV on page 2 of notes. Also on ' All Historic Layers' map of Bucks on north sde of road. Inscription: Aylesbury 8 Leighton Buzzard 2 1/2. On N Wing to Aylesbury (N1) route. In same notes under "N1. Milestones on Ground". No NGR or Parish recorded. Number on 1" OS 1835 8. And under N in red box. Milestones. 1810 50 Geo. III c. 74. Road to be measured and MSs to be set up. ( Ayl-Hockliffe) (?TMs) in pencil. Blue Folder 1 underlined in red. 1821 MPs to be set up - Ayl. ( Black Swan ) to West Chester Road. Blue folder 1 underlined in red. "1820s or 1830s" Cast Iron MPs, made by Seymour, Aylesbury' and " probably made 1820s or 1830s". " Renewal Act of 1791 made mention of provision of MPs" [ Ayl. - Shillingford, Oxon. ] In pencil ? Where - " See photos of first and second MPs from Aylebury". "Worksheet", Euro.10 underlined in red. 1966 Extract; ' Bucks - Life ', Nov. - Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes - A418, mileposts and makers, and ilus. ( Haddenham ) ". Ayl. 1 - Thame 9 " - M.P. now in B.C.M. [Handwritten notes consulted in HER] (B1).
According to Peter Gullands extensive study The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017 this is on The Aylesbury and Hockliffe Turnpike Road 1810 p.265 road 21.This road is 14 miles long 8 1/2 in Bucks. After 10 years in business they put in cast iron mileposts around 1820 to 1821. Maps of 1834 show 14 in place and many still there in 1920 an original survives at Bierton. One replacement pressed steel just west of Wing. Many milemarkers were removed during WW2 and not replaced or put in wrong place. After the toll roads closed the local transport authority council or district or parish replaced any missing milemarkers on some roads with what the Milestones Society calls Bucks Pressings Pressed Steel standardised with with 2 white faces and black writing. This road is mostly A418 today from junction of Cambridge Street and New Sreet Aylesbury to junction of Leighton and Holyhead road now A5 at Hockliffe.There are a possible 230 milemarkers from old records in Bucks 116 survive in modern records. [Copy in HER ] (B2).