Building record 1284600000 - Milestone on A40

Grade II. Milestone. Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century. Dated 1744 on 2 sides. Stone, whitewashed. Square with pyramid top. 2 sides with later inscriptions: 'Oxford 28, Wycombe 3, London 26, Uxbridge 11.' 2 other sides inscribed 'XXVIII' and '1744', but otherwise illegible. Stone has been moved c.100 metres from original site opposite Burleighfield House. Burleighfield House is now called Mayflower House. Original location of milestone was at SU9054190568 (marked on 1st edition 25-inch OS map). (B1).
Recorded as present on The Milestones Society updated website in 2001 on Uxbridge to Stokenchurch route National ID number BU_LW26. On south side of A40 London Road at Loudwater ' on wide grassed area near Tescos turn'. 41cm wide 39cm deep 97 cm high. Inscription: left: XXVIII Miles to London 17: front: Oxford 28 Wycombe 3 : right: London 28 Uxbridge 11: back : old carving very faint XXVIIII miles to Oxford'.' This is milestone 28 milestone 26 should be here.' [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B2).
Milestone 26 confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Surveyor's Drawings (1814) and 1" OS map (1835) they were in Bucks County Museum museum number 47 sheet XLVII now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Inscription: London 26: Uxbridge 11. On High Wycombe to Beaconsfield (B3) route. On page 5 of notes. In same notes under J in red box. Milestones. 1825 Bryant- Marked from W.Wycombe to Bushey Leys. In same notes under B in red box. Milestones. 1788 Jefferys - nos. 16 - 34. 1825 Bryant - nos. 16 - 34. 1835 O.S. 1" - . Nos. 16 - 37 (alteration of county boundary). See also underlined in blue. 1814 O.S.D. Surveyors Drawings. (microfiche) Mileages written on map. 1885 O.S. 6" - positions marked + mileages written in. R.I.E. Haynes - " Bucks Milestones " Extract ' Bucks Life ' (Nov. 1966). [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
In Peter Gullands extensive study The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this milestone is one of 116 eft in Bucks out of a possible 230 from historical sources. During WW2 milemarkers were rmoved sometimes they were not replaced or put in wrong place. This on the Beaconsfield and Stokenchurch Turnpike Road 1719 p.91.Milestones put up in 1744.1766-68 13 stone in Jeffereies from Beaconsfild old town to Marlow Road Stokenchurch. 9 survive with a mixture of lower and pper case letters.Incised letters.were at angle to road but turned round after 1944 in most incribed in arabic letterrs.[Copy in HER] (B4).