Building record 1471600000 - Milepost on A404

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century 'cast iron' metal milepost part of 'gout route' missing on White Lion Road Little Chalfont. Next to St Aidan's Church. 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 on1" OSD Map (1835) Bucks County Museum number 43 sheet XLIII now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Position estimated from 'All Historic Layers Database'. Inscription: Amersham 2 : Rickmansworth 6. On Amersham to Rickmansworth (F1). Recorded as not found on page F of same document titled Mile Stones [Hatfield] Chenies to Henley- "Gout Track". Number 3 on 1''' OS (1835). [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 milemarker is on the The Reading and Hatfield Turnpike Road 1767 p.175 road 12. This was the longest turnpiked trust in a Bucks trust 50 miles from Reading to Hatfield with a four and a half mile branch to Marlow Bridge. Now 22 and a half miles in Buckinghamshire.This one modern record out of 116 surviving out of a possible 230 milemarkers from historical records in Buckinghamshire according to PG. During WW2 through out the county milemarkers were removed for security sometimes not replaced or put back in wrong place. This route was first laid out by Lord Cecil to improve his route to Bath he put up the early milemakers they were thin tall stones with a domed top there are 5 originals left 2 as gate posts at Terriers two garden ornaments in Flackwell Heath 1 in Chiltern Open Air Museum all with distance from Hatfield on top. The Earl of Essex and Lord Salisbury gave land. This route was taken over by the Turnpike Trust in 1776 at some time after this they replaced these 50 stones with stones with capital letters on them. Then in the 1800s they replaced these stones with cast iron posts from Wilder and Son Reading. Peter Gulland thinks the name name gout route is not a true historical name because he does not find it mentioned till 19th Century. After the turnpike trusts closed in the 1880s and 1890s Highway Authorities district or county or parish gradually replaced missing or damaged milemarkers on some roads with metal mileposts what the Milestones Society calls Bucks Pressings. These are standardised with two white faces and black painted mileage. This orbital route has now divided into several separate routes. [Copy in HER] (B2).