Milepost on A418
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Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 at Wing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 in Wing on Aylesbury Road in brambles before the village. National ID number BU_AYLB07 on Milestones Society website in 2010 on Aylesbury to Leighton Buzzard route. Recorded as present in 2004. On north side of road 83cm high , 51cm wide, 28cm deep. Inscription: top: WING : left: LEIGHTON 3 1/2 : right: AYLESBURY 7. [ Photograph, detailed description and location available ] (B1).
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. Inscription: Aylesbury 7 Leighton Buzzard 3 1/2. On N.Wing to Aylesbury (N1 ) route.In same notes under " N1. Milestones on Ground" . No NGR or parish recorded. Number on 1" OS 1835 7. In same notes under N in a red box. Milestones 1810 50 Geo. III. C. 74. Road to be measured and MSs to be set up. (Ayl. - Hockliff ). In pencil ( ? TMs ). 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 and " probably made 18202 or 1830s". " Renewal Act of 1791 made maention of provision of MPs" [ Ayl. - Shillingford, Oxon. ] In pencil ? Where - " See photos of first and second MPs from Aylesbury", " Worksheet", Euro. 10 underlined in red. 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 ] (B2).
Local resident cleared brambles from the milepost in 2016.
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 at Wing
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