Milestone on A4129
Location/Address
None recorded
Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milestone on A4129 in Longwick
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone present in 2003 on updated Milestones Society website on Thame to Risborough route National ID number BU_THR105. ' On well kept grass verge' on Thame Road Longwick village on south side A4195. Opposite White Gables. 33cm wide X 20cm deep X 67cm high. Inscription: centre: Risborough/ 1 1/4 / Wycombe/ 10.' Stone rather crumbly repainted well in gothic script 2003 '. [ Detailed description, location and photograh ] (B1).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on maps were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies.Under title 'J5 Milestones on Ground'. NGR: 789 049 Parish: Longwick: Number on 1" OS 1835: No number. Information: Poor state: stone milestone: Front facing only: No original marks: painted on figure Wycome 10. ( In village) sketch below. Sketch annotated rectangular stone milestone. Painted letters just legible. Sloping flat top for drainage. Front: …….BORO: WYCOMBE 10. In same notes page 4 Aston Sandford to Pr. Risborough (J5). Notes on microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings and Bryant 1'' (1835) Museum number xxxvii sheet 37. 'M S' at this grid reference no inscription recorded. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B2).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th to 19th Century milestone on A4129 in Longwick
Date Listed
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