Monument record 1486400000 - Milestone on A413 at Walton

Probable eighteen or nineteenth century milestone on A413 on Walton Street in Walton in Aylesbury missing. Shown on 1835 1-inch OS map 1835, and Bryant and Jefferies county maps. Milestone 40: shown on Bryant and Jefferies maps NW of road to Walton at SP823131; shown on 1835 OS map SW of road to Walton at SP826131. NGR for milestone placed on NW bench mark as this is the location on two maps. 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. July 1822 Surveyor to give directions for cast iron mile posts on the road from Buckingham to Wendover, and guide posts where necessary. 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 Measure of road from Wendover to Buckingham 21miles, 2furlongs, 121yards. Proper hand posts to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon. 1831 £8:8:0 to stone mason for 'new facing and engraving milestones' (Treas.A/cs.- Wendover and Oakham Trust). 1832 Asking Mr King for variations in distance on Wendover-Buckingham road by shortening at Padbury Bridge and at Swanbourne turning. 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. 2nd March 1835 Wendover to Buckingham 22miles. 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. 1st June 1848 Length of turnpike road 21miles, 2furlongs, 110yards. 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 (B1).
Recorded as BU-L 39 on Milestone Society digital archive of milestones on the ground (B2).
This milestone is on the Wendover and Buckingham Turnpike Trust road of 1721; now most of the route is the A413. 1766 map of Buckinghamshire shows a complete set of 21 milestones from London 36 on Aylesbury Road in Wendover, to London 57 near new Tescos on Aylesbury Road in Buckingham; 15 now survive. There were some piecemeal replacements. The Wendover to Buckingham Trust milestones are carved with a pyrimidal top, square cross section, face angled to road with incised capital lettering on two faces and a wedge cut out of the back. 10 stones are now located on the west side of the road, five on the east side; randomly scattered - possibly due to not being replaced in right place after WW2. The original milestones were moved 300 yards north of where located in 1766 because of shortening of routes to London further south. 116 milestones records surviving in Bucks out of a possible 230 milemarkers known from old records. Part of an important route from London through Uxbrige and Aylesbury and Buckingham to Banbury from London. In 1826 creation of New Road, now Aylesbury High Street, moved the turnpike route into Market Square. (B3).