Milestone on A40
Location/Address
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Type
Description
18th or 19th Century milestone on A40 Oxford Road at Chalfont St Peter
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A40 on updated Milestones Society website present in 2001 on Uxbridge to Stokenchurch route National ID number BU_LW21.' On Oxford road Chalfont St Peter on wide grass verge by Mumfords Farm'. On north side of road 44 cm wide 39 cm deep 62 cm high. Inscription: left: London 21 Oxford 33 : front: Uxbridge 6: right: Wycombe 8 (painted on). Carved bench mark on top. 'Scraped front and chip out top'. [Detailed description, location and photograph] (B1).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on 1" OS county map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies museum number 48 sheet XLVIII page 6 of notes. Inscription: Beaconsfield 2 Uxbridge 6 London 21. On Beaconsfield to Denham (B2) route. In same notes under J in red box. Milestones. 1825 Bryant - Marked from W.Wycombe to Bushey Leys. In same notes 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. 1835 O.S. 6" - positions marked + mileages written in. R.I.E. Haynes - " Bucks Milestones " Extract ' Bucks Life' (Nov 1966). [Handwritten notes] (B2).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th or 19th Century milestone on A40 Oxford Road at Chalfont St Peter
Date Listed
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