Building record 1361900000 - Milestone on A40

Summary

18th to 19th Century milestone on A40 Wilton Park 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 or niineteenth century milestone on A40 at Wilton Park near Sandy Bottom Lodge in Chalfont St Peter parish. Recorded as present on The Milestones Society survey website in 2001 on Uxbridge to Stokenhurch route National ID number BU_LW22. 45cm wide 39cm deep 93cm high on north side of road. Inscription: left: London 22 Oxford 32 : front: Uxbridge 7. Carved benchmark mid left side. Moss and lichen on top. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B1).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on 1" OS map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 48 sheet XLVIII on page 6 of notes. Inscription: Beaconsfield 1 Uxbridge 7 London 22. On Beaconsfield to Denham (B2) route. In same notes under J in red box. Milestones. 1835 Bryant - Marked from W. Wycombe to Bushey Leys. Also 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 ). Mile Stone on current OS map. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC23398 Digital archive: Milestones Society Web V:1.2. Milestones in pre-1974 county Buckinghamshire. BU_LW22.
  • <2>SBC24230 Unpublished document: Dr Gimson. Undated. Manuscript notes on milestones compiled by Dr Gimson. musem no. sheet XLVIII page 6 and under J in red box Milestones 1825 Bryant and under B in red box.

Location

Grid reference SU 96587 89718 (point) (Exact)
Civil Parish CHALFONT ST. PETER, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jan 31 2019 11:09AM

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