Milestone on A40
Location/Address
None recorded
Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milestone at West Wycombe may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A40 in middle of West Wycombe. May be missing as not on current OS map or recorded on updated Milestones Society website in 2002 or Bucks County Council Chilterns Survey 1995. Present on handwritten notes of microfiched OSD Surveyor's Drawings (1814) and 1 inch (1835) on Oxford to W. Wycombe (B5) route on page 5 of notes. Bucks County Museum number XLI sheet 41 now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Inscription: London 31: Oxford 23. On ' All Historic Layers OS map' to. In same notes under J in red box. Milestones. 1825 Bryant - Marked from W. Wycombe to Bushey Leys. Under B in redbox 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 and mileages written in. R.I.E. Haynes " Bucks Milestones" Extract ' Bucks Life' (Nov 1966). Not obvious on All Historic Layers Database so estimated in centre of village. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1 ).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th to 19th Century milestone at West Wycombe may be missing
Date Listed
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