Milestone on A40
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Type
Description
18th or 19th Century milestone on A40 in Piddington opposite Dashwood Arms PH
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A40 at Piddington opposite Dashwood Arms PH. Stone pillar vertical dimensions not recorded. Chamfered top 15 1/2 by 16 inches deep with 2 inch diameter cuphole in top. At 45 degree angle to road. Incised and painted with black paint. North: Oxford 21 Tetsworth 9. West: London 33 Wycombe 4. ' South and East not easy to read 'possible roman numerals '. [ Drawings, location and photographs available ] (B1).
Recorded as present on Milestones Society survey website in 2002 on A40 on Uxbridge to Stokenchurch route National ID number BU_LW33. On south side of Wycombe Road ' on wide grass verge on edge to road '. 39cm wide 40cm deep 76cm high. Inscription: left: Oxford 21 Tetsworth 9: right: London 33 Wycombe 4: back: ? old carving still visible and carved benchmark lower left. ' Lichen and moss '. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes of microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and OS 1 inch (1835). Museum number XLI sheet 41 now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Oxford to W. Wycombe route (B5) page 5 of notes. Inscription: London 33 : Oxford 21. In same notes under J in red box. Milestones. 1825 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).
[ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th or 19th Century milestone on A40 in Piddington opposite Dashwood Arms PH
Date Listed
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