Building record 1262100000 - Milestone on A413

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A413 in Chalfont St Giles. Recorded as present in 2004 on The Milestones Society updated website Uxbridge to Amersham route National ID number BU_LC23. 'Amongst nettles in ditch opposite gates covered in moss'. On west side of road 37cm wide 32cm deep 64 cm high. Chamfered with old damage to back. Inscription: front: LONDON 23 CHALFONT ST GILES: back: XXIV Miles from London: 1750. Discrepancy in mileage to London. Not on current OS map so estimated from County First Edition 1: 2500 inches (1876 -1885).
[ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B1).
Grade II dated 1750 on west side. Turned round and recut C19. Stone with shallow pyramid top. Inscrbed: 'XXIV Miles from London 1750' and on east face:' LONDON 23 CHALFONT PARISH'. Next to Misbourne Cottage on Amersham road. [ Location and description available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and OS 1 inch map (1835) from Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number XLIII sheet 43 on page 5 of notes. Wendover to Amersham and Chalfont route (C3/C2). Inscription: London 23. In same notes under Milestones - Types ' 1/2 Mile from River Colne to Aylesbury - C2,C3,C4. Stone. Flat face parallell to road.4 sided. Except Bedgrove (London 39) - angled to road, lettered on 2 sides Note O.S. maps will show present positions - may not coincide with historical positions." In same notes under " MILESTONES (In site 1986 except ?) also in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1". On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 23: Old Mill Ln., C.St. G.Also under Milestones C in red box. Written in pencil [ No mention of milestones in TMs up to 1808]1741 Geo.II c. 15 Cont.Act - MSs to be erected.TM. 1808 Mr Herring to be paid when "[mile] stones properly and rightly placed spelt,are placed". TM 1810 50 Geo. III - Rd to be measured, MSs and posts to be erected. G9.1.1823 John King to measure the T.P . Road and prepare a map or plan for use of the Trustees [ See T3/51- P.R.O.]. TM.1829 'Proper hand posts' to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon.TM. 1834 Jan The Clerk to "write to the Clerks of Oak Lane Trust stating that varius 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 informed whether the milestones on the Oak Lane Trust have been placed accurately from the last mile - stone on the Oxford Road ….". TM. 1834 July " …. Measure distance from 18th milestone on Oxford road… to ascertain where respective ' milestones ( to Buckingham ) ought to stand". TM. 1835 24th March".... That the present milestones Trust to 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". TM.1858 MSs to be painted. GI. 2. 1868 March Surveyor to report on state of milestones and " cost of putting them in good order".1868 October Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones - Mr Hodgkins: at 3/- per stone , accepted. TM.1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired " throughout". TM. 1966 Extract, ' Bucks Life', Nov. - Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes, Tatling End to Amersham.C. 1750. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
According to Peter Gullands extensive studies of The Toll Roads Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this milestone is on the Wendover to Oak Lane Turnpike Road 1751p.129. There were 17 milestones square with pyramidal top. Most of inscription on only one face which was parallel to road. Consecutive stones on alternate sides of road 11 remain in place the earliest date is 1751. In 1831 stones were re engraved all 17 surviving todays lettering dates from that time. There are 230 possible milemarkers in Bucks 116 remain. During WW2 milemarkers were removed some were not retutrned or put back in wrong place. [ Copy in HER ] (B4).