Building record 1361800000 - Milestone on A40

Summary

18th or 19th Century milestone on A40 Oxford Road Chalfont St Peter

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (1)

  • MILESTONE (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD? to 1899 AD?)

Description

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A40 on updated Milestones Society website present in 2001 on Uxbridge to Stokenchurch route National ID number BU_LW21.' On Oxford road Chalfont St Peter on wide grass verge by Mumfords Farm'. On north side of road 44 cm wide 39 cm deep 62 cm high. Inscription: left: London 21 Oxford 33 : front: Uxbridge 6: right: Wycombe 8 (painted on). Carved bench mark on top. 'Scraped front and chip out top'. [ Detailed description, location and photograph availalble ] (B1).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on 1" OS county map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies museum number 48 sheet XLVIII page 6 of notes. Inscription: Beaconsfield 2 Uxbridge 6 London 21. On Beaconsfield to Denham (B2) route. 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. 1835 O.S. 6" - positions marked + mileages written in. R.I.E. Haynes - " Bucks Milestones " Extract ' Bucks Life' (Nov 1966). [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC23398 Digital archive: Milestones Society Web V:1.2. Milestones in pre-1974 county Buckinghamshire. BU_LW21.
  • <2>SBC24230 Unpublished document: Dr Gimson. Undated. Manuscript notes on milestones compiled by Dr Gimson. museum no 48 sheet XLVIII page 6 and J in red box Milestones 1835 Bryant.

Location

Grid reference SU 97996 89043 (point) (Exact)
Civil Parish CHALFONT ST. PETER, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Feb 21 2019 11:56AM

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