Milepost on A418
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18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 by West Park Farm may be missing.
Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 by West Park Farm may be missing. 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 6 Leighton Buzzard 4 1/2'. On N Wing to Aylesbury (N1) route. In same notes under " N1. Milestones on Ground ". NGR 869 209. Parish Wing. Number on 1" OS 1835 6. No post visible. 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, " probably made in 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 Aylesbury". Underlined in red " Worksheet". Euro 10. 1966 Extract; ' Bucks - life ' Nov. - Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes - A418, mileposts and makers, and illus. (Haddenham). " Ayl. 1 - Thame 9 " - M.P. now in B.C.M. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1).
In Peter Guulland's extensive study The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this milepost is on The Aylesbury and Hockliffe Turnpike Road 1810 p.285,This road was 14 miles long 8 1/2 in Bucks. After 10 years of business the trust put in 14 cast iron posts along the road in 1820 or 1821. Maps of 1834 show 14 in place. Many still there in 20's. One original survives at Bierton one pressed steel replacement west of Wing .Many were removed during WW2 and may have been not replaced or replaced wrongly. Out of a possible 230 milemarkers on original records only 116 milemarkers survive in Bucks. [ Copy in HER ]. (B2).
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18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 by West Park Farm may be missing.
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