Milepost on A418
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Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 Aylesbury Road at Haddenham may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milepost or milestone on A418 in Haddenham on Aylesbury Road at end of Pegasus Way. May be missing not on curent OS. Confirmed by handwritten notes on OS 1" (1835 ) was in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. On 'All Historic Layers Database'. Museum number 32 sheet XXXII page 3 of notes. Inscription: Ayl 7 Thame 3. On Thame to Westlington, Chearsley and Dinton (N2) route. 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. "1820 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).
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Asset type
18th to 19th Century milepost on A418 Aylesbury Road at Haddenham may be missing
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