Milestone on A413
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18th to 19th Century milestone on Wendover Road at Weston Turville, may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A413 Wendover Road, Weston Turville south of Triangle Business Park opposite Hideaway Farm possibly missing as not on current OS map. Inscription: London 37: Aylesbury 3. Supported by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and OSD County 1 inch (1835) on Aylesbury to Wendover towards Amersham road (C4). Bucks County Museum number xxxiv sheet 34 page now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Page 4 of notes. Grid reference estimated from County first edtion map. Also under 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. Also under "MILESTONES ( In site 1986 except ? ) and in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1." On OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 37: N of Terrick turning. ( Cement copy ! ) L. In same notes under Milestones and C in red box. In pencil [No mention of milestone 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.G9.1. 1822 July Surveyor to give directions for Cast Iron Mile Posts on the road from Buckingham to Wendover, and Guide Posts where necessary.TM. 1822 (Oct.) 1. Surveyor to give directions for milestones on "said road" to be fresh painted and letters fresh cut where necessary. 2. Guide Posts to be all newpainted and new posts where necessary.TM 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. 1828 Measure of road from Wendover to Buckingham 21m. 2fur. 121yds.TM. 1829 ' Proper hand posts ' to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon-.TM. 1831 £8:8:0 to stonemason for "new facing and engraving milestones".(Treas.A/cs - Wend. And Oakham). 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 2 Mar. Wendover to Buckingham 22m.Dup.Wis. 1835 24 Mar. " that the present milestones in this Trust be taken up , and new faced and lettered and painted, and direct they measure the the turnpike road from the 18th milestone on the Uxbridge Road from London".TM. 1848 1 June Length of T.P. road 21m. 2fur. 110yds. Dup.Wis. 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 March ditto Milestone near Stoke Mandeville to be moved about 2ft; so it does not stand on footway.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, "… original road … Amersham to Aylesbury… can be traced by milestones 30 and 31 at Missenden". In red Now on by-pass JE. [Handwritten notes] (B1).
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18th to 19th Century milestone on Wendover Road at Weston Turville, may be missing
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