Building record 1471800000 - Milestone on A40

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A40 London Road High Wycombe by remains of old railway bridge next to substation may be missing. Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814) and OS 1" map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies museum number 47 sheet XLVII. Inscription: London 28 : Uxbridge 13. On High Wycombe to Beaconsfield (B3) route. On page 5 of notes. Not on current OS location estimated from 'All Historic Layers Database'. In same notes under J in red box. Milestones. 1825 Bryant - Marked from W. Wycombe to Bushey Leys In same notes under B in red box. Milestones. 1788 Jefferys - nos. 16 - 34. 1825 Bryant - nos. 16 - 34. 1835 O.S.1" - . Nos. 16 - 37 (alteration of county boundary). See also underlined in blue. 1814 O.S.D. Surveyors Drawings. (microfiche) Mileages written on map. 1885 O.S. 6" - positions marked + mileages writen in. R.I.E. Haynes - "Bucks Milestones" Extract ' Bucks Life ' (Nov.1966). [Handwritten notes consulted in HER] (B1).
In Peter Gullands extensive study of The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017.This milestone is on The Beaconsfield and Stokenchurch Turnpike Road 1719 road 4 p.91.This reached from the west end of Beaconsfield Old Town to the west end of Stokenchurch village. Milestones were put up in 1744 at an angle to the road. Some still carry this date 9 survive today they had incised Roman lettering to start with in upper and lower case styles.Then some time after 1744 all were turned to be more visible from road and arabic numerals cut into two faces. Some were mixed up after reworking. During WW2 milemarkers were removed and not always put back in right places in this case some put square to road some diagonally and one with numerals not facing road. Sources suggest 230 milemarkers in Bucks of which 116 survive in modern records. After the trusts closed in the 1880s and 1890s Highway Authorities district or county or parish gradually replaced missing milemarkers on some roads with metal posts that the Milestones Society calls Bucks Pressings. These are standardised with two white faces made of metal with black paint inscriptions. [Copy in HER] (B2).