Building record 1470300000 - Milepost on A418

Summary

18th to 19th Century milepost A418 by West Park Farm may be missing.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (1)

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

Description

Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 by West Park Farm may be missing. Not on current OS but confirmed by handwritten notes on OS 1'' map (1835) was in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 24 sheet XXIV on page 2 of notes. Also on ' All Historic Layers' map of Bucks on north sde of road. Inscription: 'Aylesbury 6 Leighton Buzzard 4 1/2'. On N Wing to Aylesbury (N1) route. In same notes under " N1. Milestones on Ground ". NGR 869 209. Parish Wing. Number on 1" OS 1835 6. No post visible. And under N in red box. Milestones. 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, " probably made in 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 Aylesbury". Underlined in red " Worksheet". Euro 10. 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 ] (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC24230 Unpublished document: Dr Gimson. Undated. Manuscript notes on milestones compiled by Dr Gimson. museum no.24 sheet XXIV page 2 and N1. Milestones on Ground and N in red box 1810.

Location

Grid reference SP 86843 20930 (point) (Estimated from sources)
Civil Parish WING, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 18 2019 10:58AM

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