Building record 1470600000 - Milepost on A418

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 Aylesbury Road just inside Aylesbury parish. May be missing as not on current OS. Original position estimated from ' All Historic Layers' database. Confirmed by handwritten notes on OS 1'' (1835) from Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 28 sheet XXVIII page 3 of notes. Inscription: Leighton Buzzard 9 1/2 Aylesbury 1. On Aylesbury to Bierton (N1) route. In same notes under " N1. Milestones on Ground". NGR 830 148. Parish Bierton. Number on 1" OS 1835 1. And under N in red box . Milestones. 1810 50 Geo.III c. 74. Road to be measured MSs to be set up. (Ayl-Hockliffe) (?TMs) in pencil. Blue Folder 1. 1821 MPs to be set up - Ayl. (Black Swan) to West Chester Road. Blue Folder 1. " 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 Aylesbury " . " Worksheet ", Euro. 10. 1966 Extract; ' Bucks - Life ', Nov. - Bucks. Milestones., R.I. Haynes - A418, mileposts and makers, and illus. (Haddenham). " Ayl. 1 - Thame 9" - M.P. now in B.C.M. [Handwritten notes consulted in HER ] (B1).
Local resident reports definitely missing.
According to Peter Gullands extensive study of The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017.This milepost was on The Aylesbury Thame and Shillingford Turnpike Road 1770 p.193 road 14. This trust is now mostly the A418 from Aylesbury Oxford Road to the Thame bypass.The trust was slow to put up milestones and had to reminded a renewal act of 1791 showed no milestones had been erected. The OS map shows this had been done by 1831 there are 8 in place between Aylesbury and Shillingford none on the other branches from Thame. Originally the mileage started at London 39 in Aylesbury a contnuation of The Sparrows Herne Trust road 12 p.163 mileage via Watford. Sometime between 1824 and 1836 these stones were replaced with cast iron mileposts with raised lettering made by Seymour of Aylesbury. The distances displayed now measured from centre of Aylesbury not Central London they were sited halfway beween the stones which were then removed. 3 mileposts survive in Bucks on the south side of the road and and a fourth in the County Museum Garden Aylesbury. There is one left in Oxfordshire outside Oxfordshire Golf Club. During WW2 milemarkers were removed for security reasons sometimes not replaced or put back in wrong place. According to PG there 116 modern records from a possible 230 milemarkers from old sources in Buckinghamshire. After the toll roads closed the local transport authority district or council or parish replaced any missing milemarkers on some roads with metal what the Milestones Society calls Bucks Pressings standardised with 2 white faces directions in black. [Copy in HER] (B2)