Milestone on A413
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Description
18th to 19th Century milestone on Amersham Road at Gerrards Cross
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on wide grass verge of A413 Amersham Road Gerrards Cross. Recorded on Milestones Society survey website as present in 2004 on Uxbridge to Amersham route National ID number BU_LC19. On east side of road 40cm wide 34cm deep 61cm high with chamfered edge. Inscription: front: (LOND)ON (19) IVER PARISH. 'Cement fills erased letters on front moss on base and back'. Original lettering incised on back including miles from and 1750. ? Was moved from old road. Recorded as stone on OS map. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B1).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD 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 19. On Amersham to Denham (C2) route. 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 side. 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. 19: IOW Farm, A413 (Oak Lane). In same notes under Milestones "C" in red box. In pencil [ No mention of milestones in TMs up to 1808 ] 1741 Geo Iic 15Cont.Act- MSs to be erected. TM. 1808 Mr Herring to be paid when " [ mile]stones properly and rightly spelt and placed". TM. 1810 50 Geo III- Rd. to be measured, MSst posts to be erected G9.1 1829 ' Proper hand posts' to be put up, Aylesbury + elsewhere with distances marked there on- 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 " …. Measured distance from 18th milestone on Oxford road… To ascertain where respective milstones (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 rewriting milestones- Mr Hodgkins at 3/- per stone, accepted. TM 1871 Handpost to be painted and repaired "throughout". TM. 1966 Extract, ' Bucks Life ', Nov. - Bucks Milestones, R.I. Haynes, Tatling End to Amersham C.1750. [ Hand written notes consulted ].
Statement of Significance
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18th to 19th Century milestone on Amersham Road at Gerrards Cross
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