Monument record 1506800000 - Milepost on A41, opposite Green End Road

Probable 18th to 19th century milepost on A41 in Aston Clinton opposite Green End Road may be missing. London 34 Aylesbury 4. 1820 Erection of MPs (Sparrows Herne Trust). 1966 Extract "Bucks Life", Nov. - Bucks Milestones, R.I.E. Haynes, MPs Ayl./Bicester, 1833. 1825 Marked on 1825 Bryant map and 1835 OS 1-inch map. Mileposts had mileage to London on top, parish below, Ayles to right from road (B1).
This milemarker was on The Sparows Herne Tunpike Road of 1792. Called Sparrows Herne Trust after a road in Chalfont. Mile markers in heart of oak set up in 1764, then sometime in 1880s were changed to mileposts manufactured by R. Barrett to a model based on those on the Bath Road. Sparrows Herne Trust was one of the few trusts to change to metal mileposts so late in the life of the trust. In 2017 116 mile markers survive in Buckinkinghamshire out of a possble 230 recorded in historical sources. Some mileposts were still there at 31 and 37 miles from London, on the south side of the road in Tring and Aylesbury (B2).