Building record 1417900000 - Milepost on A418

Summary

18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 Haddenham

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (1)

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

Description

Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 in Aylesbury Road Haddenham. National ID number BU_AYTH05 on Milestones Society website on Shillingford to Aylesbury route in 2010. Recorded as present 2002 on south side of road close to telegraph pole. 92cm high,49.5cm wide 24cm deep.. Inscription: left: TO THAME 5 : right: TO AYLES- BURY 5 : top: HADDENHAM PARISH. [ Photograph, detailed description and location available ]. (B1)
Supported by microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814 ) Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies, number xxxiii sheet 33 page 4 of note. Thame to Aylesbury (N2) route . Inscription : Aylesbury 5 : Thame 5 : ? London 43. In same notes under Milestones and N in red box. 1810 50 Geo.III c. 74 Road to be measured and MSs to be set up (Ayl.- Hockliffe). In pencil (?TMs). Blue Folder 1. 1821 MPs to be set up - Ayl.(Black Swan) to West Chester Road. Blue Folder 1. "1820s or 1830s" Cast iron MPs, made by Seymour, Aylesbury, and "probably made 1820s or 1830s." " Renewal Act of 1891 made mention of provision of MPs" [Ayl.- Shillingford, Oxon]. In pencil ? Where - "See photos of first and second MPs from Aylesbury". Worksheet, Euro.10. 1966 Extract; 'Bucks. - Life', Nov.- Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes - A418, milepost and makers, and illus. (Haddenham). "Ayl.1 - Thame 9" - M.P. now in B.C.M. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2)

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC23398 Digital archive: Milestones Society Web V:1.2. Milestones in pre-1974 county Buckinghamshire. BU_AYTH05.
  • <2>SBC24230 Unpublished document: Dr Gimson. Undated. Manuscript notes on milestones compiled by Dr Gimson. No. xxxiii sheet 33 page 4.

Location

Grid reference SP 75416 10556 (point) (Exact)
Civil Parish HADDENHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Feb 28 2019 11:16AM

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