Milepost on A418
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18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 north of Rowsham may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milepost on A418 north of Rowsham on west side of road may be missing as not recorded on other surveys is on current OS. Confirmed by handwritten note on OS 1" (1835) was in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 29 sheet XXIX page 3 of notes. Inscription: Ayl 4 LB 61/2. On Aylesbury to L Buzzard (N1) route. In same notes under "N1. Milestones on Ground" NGR 851 183. Parish Wingrave. Number on 1" OS 1835 4. No post visible. In same notes under N in red box. Milestones. 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. Underlined in red 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 second MPs from Aylesbury". " 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).
Accordig to Peter Gullands definitive study The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this milepost is on The Aylesbury and Hockliffe Turnpike Road 1810 p.265. This road was mostly from junction Cambridge Street Aylesbury with New street to Junction of Leighton Road with Hoyhead Road Hockliffe. 14 miles long 8 1/2 miles in Bucks. After 10yrs working 1820 to 1821 cast iron milestones were put along route 1884 maps show 14 in place many still there in 1920. Most removed during WW2 as were most of milemarkers in Bucks unusually in this case only one survived at Bierton. According to sources there are 230 possible milemarkers in Bucks possible 160 on modern sources. One in Wing is a morden Bucks Pressing style replacement. (B2).
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18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 north of Rowsham may be missing
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