Building record 1474900000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century milestone on A413 next to Town Hall Amersham may now be missing. Shown on 1st edition 6-inch OS map as LONDON 26 with benchmark, in High Street at Amersham. Type: Stone. Flat face parallel to road. 4-sided. Not shown on current OS map. On 1835 OS 1-inch map, Bryant and Jefferies county maps. Milestone 26: in Amersham, on road to hospital? N of Market Hall. No mention of milestones in Turnpike Trust Minutes up to 1808. 1741 Geo. II c 15 Cont. Act - Milestones to be erected. Trust minutes: 1808 Mr Herring to be paid when [mile]stones properly and rightly spelt are placed. 1810 50 Geo.III - Road to be measured, milestones and posts to be erected. G9.1. 1823 John King to measure the Turnpike road and prepare a map or plan for use of the Trustees [Document T3/51in Public Record Office]. 1829 Proper hand posts to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon. January 1834 The Clerk to write to the Clerk of Oak Lane Trust stating that various improvements by shortening the road have been made and the Trustees, presuming that similar improvements have been made on the Oak Lane Trust, wish to be informed whether the milestones on the Oak Lane Trust have been placed accurately from the last mile-stone on the Oxford Road. July 1834 Measure distance from the 18th milestone on Oxford road….to ascertain where respective milestones (to Buckingham) ought to stand. 24th March 1835 the present milestones in this Trust be taken up, and new faced and lettered and painted, and direct they measure the turnpike road from the 18th milestone on the Uxbridge road from London. 1858 Milestones to be painted. G1.2. March 1868 Surveyor to report of state of milestones and cost of putting them in good order. October 1868 Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones; Mr Hodgkins at 3/- per stone accepted. 1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired throughout. [Hand written notes consulted in HER] (B1).
This type of milestone is recorded on The Wendover and Oak Lane Road 1751 p.129 road 8 in Peter Gullands extensive study of The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties 2017.This is now mostly the A413. There are modern records of 116 milemarkers left in Bucks out of a possible 230 maximum recorded orginally in the County. There were 17 on this road orignally all re-engraved in 1831 of which 11 remain. Milestone are square plan with pyramidal top inscription on one face. After WW 2 when milemarkers were removed throughout the country for security reasons not all were replaced or in correct places. Two in Amersham are on same side of the road others on alternate sides because the road was numbered from both ends.They ran from London 19 south of Oak End at Chalfont St Peter to London 37 in South Street Wendover. After the trusts closed in the1880s and 1890s the Highway Authorities either district or county or parish gradually replaced missing milemarkers on some roads in Bucks with standardised metalposts that the Milestones Society calls Bucks Pressings they have two white faces wth black paint lettering. [Copy in HER] (B2).