Milestone on old A413
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Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milestone on Lower Road at Chalfont St Peter
Probable eighteeth to nineteenth century milestone on Lower Road Chalfont St Peter was A413. On Milestones Society survey website as present in 2003 on Uxbridge to Amersham route National ID number BU_LC20. West side of unclassified road ' just south of Claydon on ivy covered bank almost covered by soil.' 40cm wide 37cm deep 57cm high. Inscription : front : LONDON 20 CHALFONT ST PETER 1. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B1).
Confirmed by handwitten notes on microfiched surveyors drawings (1814) and OS 1" county map (1835) were in Bucks County museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 48 sheet XLVIII page 6 of notes. Inscription; London 20. On Amersham to Denham (C2) route. Also Milestones-Types in same notes "1/2 mile from River Colne to Aylesbury -C2,C3,C4. Stone. Flat face parallel to road.4 sided. Except - Bedgrove (London 39) -angled to road, lettered on 2 sides." Note O.S. maps will show present positions- may not coincide with historical positions. In same notes under "MILESTONES ( In site 1986 except ? ) In red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1". On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 20: ? Bottom of rd. to G's X?. In same notes Milestones - C in red box. In pencil [ No mention of milestones in TMs up to 1808 ].1741 Geo. II c. 15 Cont. Act - MSs to be erected. TM.1808 Mr Herring to be paid when " [mile]stones properly and rightly spelt are placed". TM.1810 50 Geo. III- Rd . To be measured, MSs and posts to be errected G.9.1.1823 John King to measure the T.P.road and prepare a map or plan for use of the Tustees [See T3/51- P.R.O.] TM.1829 ' Proper hand posts' to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon. TM.1834 Jan. The Clerk to "write to the clerk of Oak Lane Trust stating that various improvements by shortening the road have been made and the Trustees, presuming that similar improvements have been made on the Oak Lane Trust, wish to be informed whether the milestones on the Oak Lane Trust have been placed accurately from the last mile-stone on the Oxford Raod …." . TM. 1834 July " …measure distance from 18th milestone on Oxford road…. to ascertain where respective milesones (to Buckingham) ought to stand ".TM. 1835 24th March " …. That the present milestones in this Trust be taken up, and new faced and lettered and painted, and direct they measure the turnpike road from the 18th milestone on the Uxbridge road from London". TM. 1858 MSs to be painted. GI.2.1868 March Surveyor to report on state of milestones and "cost of putting them in good order". TM. 1868 October Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones - Mr Hodgkins; at 3/- per stone accepted.TM.1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired " throughout". TM. 1966 Extract, ' Bucks Life', Nov. - Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes, Tatling End to Amersham, c. 1750. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th to 19th Century milestone on Lower Road at Chalfont St Peter
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