Building record 1344400000 - Milepost on A404

Grade II. Milepost. Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century. Painted cast iron. Triangular base chamfered to a gable, top inscribed 'Hatfield 21' in raised clarenden lettering & numerals. Base inscribed in similar style; left hand 'Amersham 3, Reading 29' with a projecting tag to accommodate the first 'A'; right hand 'Rickmansworth 5'. The milepost is situated on the old Hatfield to Reading Turnpike Road. (B1).
Well maintained and ' particularly fine example of this type of Milepost, part of gout route.' [ Drawings, location and photographs available ] (B2).
Recorded as present in 2002 on The Milestones Society survey web site 2002 on A404 Rickmansworth to Amersham route National ID number BU_RGHT29. On south side of Amersham Road Little Chalfont at junction with Chessfield Park east of Railway Station. ' On very wide grass verge '. 44cm wide 26cm deep 87cm high. Inscription: left: AMERSHAM 3 READING 29 : right: RICKMANS-WORTH 5 :top : HATFIELD 21.[ Detailed description, location and photograph availalble ] (B3).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on OS 1" map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 43 sheet XLIII page 5 on note. Inscription: Amersham 3 : Rickmansworth 5. On Amersham to Rickmansworth (F1) route. Also in same notes on page F [Hatfield] Chenies to Henley ' Gout Track' .No 3 on 1" OS 1835 metal milepost in good condition mileage as above. Under red F in box Mrs Smith The Pightle Great Kimble 6.2.87. Hexagonal Milestone. Found in a field in Little Chalfont by her father the surveyor when the road was being upgraded in 1930's. Found 1/2 mile from Chalfont and Lat station Lord Salisbury's Gout Track road. Mileages just visible 29 Reading 3 Amersham. Other inscription in between illegible. Iron pieces at side of stone perhaps for lifting. Lead piece on top. As much stone squared off below ground as on top.[ Illustration and handwritten notes consulted ] (B4).