Milepost on A4155
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Description
18th or 19th Century milepost on A4155 at Mill End Hambleden, may be missing
Probable cast iron eighteenth to nineteenth century milepost missing Missing in 1995. 'Part of gout route'. On A4155 west of Medmenham. On current OS map. [ Location available ] (B1).
Reported as missing some time since 1991 on Milestones Society website updated in 2003 on Reading to Marlow route National ID number BU_RGHT11 .Was on south side of A4155 at Mill End Hambleden. Inscription was : top: Hatfield 40 : right : Reading 11 Henley 3 1/2 Marlow 4. Diamond shape.Wilder and Sons Reading. No dimensions recorded or co-ordinates. Is on OS map as milestome. [ Detailed description available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings and 1" OS map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number not clear ? 18 On ' All Historic Layers Database' as: Marlow 4 Henley 3. Also on page F of same notes under title "Gout Track" (ctd.). Number 4 on 1"OS 1835. Not found in 1987 MP on 1" OS. In same notes under F in red box Milestones. 1825 Bryant - from High Wycombe to Marlow only. 1820 Milestones replaced by mileposts. 1990 " milestones now gate posts at Flackwell Heath. See also underlined in red j.R. + K.E. field visit on a separate sheet. R.I.E. Haynes - Buckinghamshire Milestones. Kenneth Hunter - " Lord Salisbury's Gout Track ". Ref. underlined in red " Hertfordshire Countryside ". Vol 16. No 63. Winter 1961. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
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Asset type
18th or 19th Century milepost on A4155 at Mill End Hambleden, may be missing
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