Building record 1417500000 - Milepost on A418

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century cast iron milepost on grass verge on A418 in Bierton village just before Pecks Farm Close. National ID number BU_AYLB02 on Aylesbury to Leighton Buzzard route on Milestones Society website in 2010. Recorded as present in 2003. On north side of road 80cm high 22cm deep,42cm wide. Inscription: top: BIERTON : left: LEIGHTON 81/2 HOCKLIFFE 12: right: AYLESBU(RY) 2. [ Photograph, detailed description and location available ] (B1).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814 ) and OS 1" (1835 ) were in Bucks County Musuem now in Centre for Bucks Studies.Museum number 29 sheet XXIX page 3 of notes. Inscription: Aylesbury 2 LB 81/2. On current OS. On Aylesbury to L Buzzard (N1) route. In same notes under " N1. Milestones on Ground". NGR 843 158. Parish Bierton. Number on 1" OS 1835 2. In same notes under N in red box. 1810 50 Geo. III c. 74 Road to be measured and MSs to be set up. ( Ayl - Hockliffe ) ( ? TMs ) in pencil. Blue Folder 1 underlined in red.1821 MPs to be set up - Ayl. ( Black Swan to West Chester Road. Blue Folder 1 underlined in red. " 1820s or 1830s" Cast iron MPs, made by Seymour, Aylesbury, and "probably made 1820s or 1830s."" Renewal Act of 1791 made mention of provision of MPs" { Ayl. - Shillingford, Oxon ]. In pencil ? Where - " see photos of first and second MPs from Ayles" " " Worksheet" , Euro. 10 underlined in red. 1966 Extract; ' Bucks- Life', Nov - Bucks Milestones, R.I. Haynes - A418, mileposts and makers and illus. ( Haddenham ). Ayl.1 - Thame 9 " - M.P. now in B.C. M. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).