Milepost on A418
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18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 north of Wingrave Crossroads may be missing.
Probable eighteenth or nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 north of Wingrave Crossroads 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 5 Leighton Buzzard 5 1/2. On N Wing to Aylesbury (N1) route. In Same notes under " N 1. Milestones on Ground". NGR 858 197. No parish recorded. Number on 1" OS 1835 5. No post visible, and 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. 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 Aylesbury ". " Worksheet" Euro. 10. 1966 Extract; ' Bucks - Life ', Nov.- Bucks. Milestones, R.I. Haynes - A418, mileposts and markers, and illus. (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 Buckinghamshiire 1706 -1881 with their connections into neighbouring counties. This was on The Aylesbury and Hockliffe Turnpike Road 1810 p.285. This road was 14 miles long with 8/12 in Bucks. After 10 years in business between 1820 and 1821 14 casy iron mileposts were put up, in 1834 there were 14 in place most were still there in the 20's, but now two remain an original in Bierton and a Bucks pressing copy west of Wing. There are records of a possible milemarkers in Bucks 116 survive. During WW2 milemarkeres were sometimes removed and either not returned or put back in wrong place. (B2).
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18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 north of Wingrave Crossroads may be missing.
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