Moved Milestone on A413
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Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milestone on A413 at Great Missenden
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone recorded on updated Milestones Society survey website as present in 2003 on A413 Amersham to Aylesbury route National ID number BU_LC30. On Great Missenden bypass north of an uncut area of grass. On east side of road 34cm wide 32cm deep 67cm high. Inscription 'in several layers of peeling paint': front: LONDON 30. Carved bench mark mid left side, badly eroded base at back. No suitable height recorded at this NGR. Moved from outside Nags Head Public House. [ Detailed description, location and photographs available ] (B1).
Confirmed by handwritten notes of microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814) and OS 1'' map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 38 sheet XXXVIII on page 4 of notes. Was outside Nags Head PH on old Wendover to Amersham road Great Missenden.' Now on A413 GM by pass'. Inscription : London 30. Also in same notes under Milestones- Types "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 ? ) also in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1." On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 30: Gt. Miss. By-pass (re-sited) OS- Nag's Head. In same notes under "C in red box: Milestones ". Sketch of stone with 30 on 30 London Gt Missenden another sketch of bigger blank stone. In same notes under Milestones with 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 erected,G.9.1. 1823 John King to measure the T.P. road and prepare a map or plan for use of the Trustees [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 Road ….".TM. 1834 July "… measure distance from 18th milestone on Oxford road… to ascertain where respective milestones (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.G1.2. 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 mlestones - 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,"…original road …Amersham to Aylesbury….can be traced by milestones 30 and 31 at Missenden". In red now on by-pass V.E .
[ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th to 19th Century milestone on A413 at Great Missenden
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