Milestone on A40
Location/Address
None recorded
Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milestone in Stokenchurch, may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A40 north of Stokenchurch south of Kiln Farm. Possibly missing as not reorded on other milestone surveys in Bucks. On north east side of road not on current OS maps but confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawings (1814) and OS 1 inch (1835) Oxford to W. Wycombe route (B5) page 5 of notes. Bucks County Museum number XLI sheet 41 now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Inscription: London 37 : Oxford 17. Position estimated from County 1 Inch 1835. In same notes under J in red box. Milestones. 1825 Bryant - Marked from W. Wycombe to Bushey Leys. Also under B in red box. Milestones. 1788 Jefferys - nos. 16 - 34. 1825 Bryant - nos, 16 - 34. 1835 O.S. 1" - . Nos. 16 - 37 (alteration of county boundary). See also underlined in blue. 1814 O.S.D. Surveyors Drawings . (microfiche) Mileages written on map. 1885 O.S. 6" - positions marked + mileages written in. R.I.E. Haynes - " Bucks Milestones" Extract ' Bucks Life' (Nov. 1966). [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th to 19th Century milestone in Stokenchurch, may be missing
Date Listed
n/a