Milepost on A418
Location/Address
None recorded
Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 north of Grove End Farm in Haddenham may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A418 north of Grove End Farm Haddenham. May be misssing Not on current OS database but on 'All Historic Layers' database. Confirmed by handwritten notes on 1" County Map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 32 sheet XXXII on page 3 of notes. Thame to Chearsley, Westlington and Dinton (N2) route. Inscription: Ayl 8 Thame 2. In same notes under Milestones and N in red box. 1810 50 Geo. III c. 74 Road to be measured and MSs to be set up (Ayl.- Hockliffe). In pencil (?TMs). Blue Folder 1. 1821 MPs to be set up -Ayl. (Black Swan) to West Chester Road. Blue Folder 1. "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 econd MPS from Aylesbury". "Worksheet", Euro.10. 1966 Extract; 'Bucks-Life', Nov.- Bucks. Milestones, R.I.Hayne - A418, mileposts and makers, and illus. (Haddenham). "Ayl.1 - Thame 9" - M.P. now in B.C.M. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 north of Grove End Farm in Haddenham may be missing
Date Listed
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