Building record 1471400000 - Milepost on A418

Summary

18th to 19th Century milepost A418 Aylesbury Road Haddenham Aylesbury 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 to nineteenth century milepost or milestone on A418 in Haddenham on Aylesbury Road at end of Pegasus Way. May be missing not on curent OS. Confirmed by handwritten notes on OS 1" (1835 ) was in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. On 'All Historic Layers Database'. Museum number 32 sheet XXXII page 3 of notes. Inscription: Ayl 7 Thame 3. On Thame to Westlington, Chearsley and Dinton (N2) route. 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. "1820 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 Aylesbury". 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SBC24230 Unpublished document: Dr Gimson.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 32 sheet XXXII page 3.

Location

Grid reference SP 72629 09114 (point) (Estimated from sources)
Civil Parish HADDENHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 18 2019 11:42AM

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