Milepost on A41
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18th or 19th Century milepost on A41 north of Stone Bridge in Quarrendon may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century cast iron milepost on A41 north of Stone Bridge Quarrendon. Not on current OS on ' All Historic Maps' database. ? Missing. Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyor's drawings (1814) and OS 1'' (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 28 sheet XXVIII page 3. On Aylesbury to Waddesdon (H2) route Aylesbury 2 London 40. In same notes under "H2 Milestones on Ground". On Bryant (1825) and OS 1" (1835) number on 1" OS 39. Description and drawing of milepost on same road at NGR 646 199 HER no 13811 in Ludgershall. In same notes under Milestones and H in red box. 1820 Erection of MPs (Sparrows Herne Trust). Nos 33,35,36,37 still visible. G- Blue Folder 4. 1966 Extract "Bucks Life", Nov.- Bucks Milestones, R.I.E. Haynes MPs Ayl./Bicester, 1833 G- Blue Folder 5. 1825 Marked on Bryant. 1835 Marked on OS1". [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1).
According to Peter Gullands extensive study The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881.This milepost was on the Bicester and Aylesbury Turnpike Road 1770 p.205. Milemarkers probably stones to start with. The first milemarker was on the Buckingham Road 41 miles to London just below thel present site of Royal Bucks Hospital n Aylesbury. As Sparrow Henre Trust to the south reduced its length these milemarkers were moved or altered to reflect new distances to London In 1830 all replaced with cast iron mileposts there were 17 in total 4 survive in Bucks all on north side road none in Oxfordshire maybe not replaced after WW2. 230 possible milemarkers in Bucks on old maps there are of just 116 left.(B2).
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18th or 19th Century milepost on A41 north of Stone Bridge in Quarrendon may be missing
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