Milepost or Milestone on A404
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Description
18th to 19th Century milepost or milestone on old A404 at Burroughs Grove may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century century metal milepost or may be milestone north of Three Horseshoes PH at Burroughs Grove on old A404. Not on current OS but on 'All Historic Layers' database as Milestone. Confirmed by handwritten notes on microfiched OSD surveyors drawings (1814) and OS 1" map (1835) were in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies. Museum number 47 sheet XLVII. Inscription: Marlow 2 : Wycombe 3. On High Wycombe to Marlow (F4) route. On page 6 of notes. Also on page F of same notes under Mile Stones [Hatfield] Chenies to to Henley " Gout Track". Number 3 on 1" OS (1835). Not found in 1987. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1).
In Peter Gullands extensive study on The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this milemarker was on The Reading and Hatfield Turnpike Road p.175. The first milemarkeres on this road were early stone ones thin plates with domed tops and 3 rounded faces may have been paid for by Lord Cecil for the "guot route" 3 of these original stones survive 2 as gateposts in Terriers one from Little Chalfont is in Chiltern Open Air Museum they predate Turnpike Road and have Hatfield at top. Replaced 50 stones in 1770 then metal posts in the early 19th century. 3 metal posts survive in Bucks. From sources 230 milemarkers were recorded in Bucks 116 remain. During WW2 miiemarkers were removed some never went back or are incorrect place. (B2).
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Asset type
18th to 19th Century milepost or milestone on old A404 at Burroughs Grove may be missing
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