Building record 1213400000 - Milestone on A4

Grade II. Rough stone, whitewashed. Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century. Re-used. Original inscription on side away from Bath Road now almost wholly illegible. The stone has been turned with a corner facing the road and part cut away giving 2 bottom faces at an angle and a flat face above. On the angle faces: right hand: 'Slough 3': left hand: Maidenhead 2': flat face; 'London 24' . (B1).
On The Milestones Society updated website as present in 2002 on A4 on London to Maidenhead route National ID number BU_LB24. 'On Bath Road in Burnham at Sainsburys roundabout ? moved when roundabout built '. On south side of road 45cm wide 41cm deep 87cm high. Inscription: right: MAIDENHEAD 2 : front: LONDON 24 : left: SLOUGH 3 : back: on right side still visible XXIV miles from Hyde Park Corner 1741. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814) and 1" OS map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 52/2 sheet XLVII page 7 of notes. Inscription: Maidenhead 2 Slough 3 + from London 24 (1814). On Maidenhead East A4 (D2) route. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
In Peter Gullands extensive stuy of toll roads The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this milestone is on the Colnbrook Turnpike Road 1727 p.111, called the Bath road. 13 were produced square cross section pyramidal tops at set square to road inscription lower case letters and roman numerals on front face including distances to Hyde Park Corner in recess on back made by stonemason in Windsor and sited in 1741. Because of complaints about legibility lifted and turned at angle to road two new faces inscribed with roman numerals and arabic letters some time after 1768. 12 still in place S side of A4. Front faces recut in 1930s style local destinations in capital lett Lndon replaced Hyde Park Corner Possible 230 milemarkers in Bucks according to Peter Gulland 116 suviveduring WW2 milemarkers were moved sometimes they werenot replaced at all or in wrong place .[Copy in HER] (B4).