Milepost on A418
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18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 Ascott by Ascott House, may be missing
Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 opposite Ascott House. Not on current OS but confirmed by handwritten notes on OS 1'' map (1835) was in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 24 sheet XXIV on page 2 of notes. Also on ' All Historic Layers' map of Bucks on north sde of road. Inscription: Aylesbury 8 Leighton Buzzard 2 1/2. On N Wing to Aylesbury (N1) route. In same notes under "N1. Milestones on Ground". No NGR or Parish recorded. Number on 1" OS 1835 8. And under N in red box. Milestones. 1810 50 Geo. III c. 74. Road to be measured and MSs to be set up. ( Ayl-Hockliffe) (?TMs) in pencil. Blue Folder 1 underlined in red. 1821 MPs to be set up - Ayl. ( Black Swan ) to West Chester Road. Blue folder 1 underlined in red. "1820s or 1830s" Cast Iron MPs, made by Seymour, Aylesbury' and " probably made 1820s or 1830s". " Renewal Act of 1791 made mention of provision of MPs" [ Ayl. - Shillingford, Oxon. ] In pencil ? Where - " See photos of first and second MPs from Aylebury". "Worksheet", Euro.10 underlined in red. 1966 Extract; ' Bucks - Life ', Nov. - Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes - A418, mileposts and makers, and ilus. ( Haddenham ) ". Ayl. 1 - Thame 9 " - M.P. now in B.C.M. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1).
According to Peter Gulland's extensive study The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this is on The Aylesbury and Hockliffe Turnpike Road 1810. This road is 14 miles long 8 1/2 in Bucks. After 10 years in business they put in cast iron mileposts 1820 to 1821, maps of 1834 show 14 in place and many still in 1920, an original survives at Bierton, one replacement pressed steel just west of Wing. Many milemarkers were removed during WW2 and not replaced or put in wrong place.There are a possible 230 milemarkers from records in Bucks 116 survive. [ Copy in HER ] (B2).
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18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 Ascott by Ascott House, may be missing
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