Milestone on A413
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18th to 19th Century milestone on A413 next to Town Hall in Amersham may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on A413 next to Town Hall Amersham may be missing. On ' All Historic Layers Database as LONDON 26 with benchmark in High Street Amersham. Also described in handwritten notes under Milestones- Types "1/2 mile from River Colne to Aylesbury - C2,C3,C4. Stone. Flat face parallel to road. 4-sided- Except- Bedgrove ( London 39) - angled to road, lettered on 2 sides." Note O.S. will show present- positions- may not coincide with historical positions. Not on current OS. In same notes under " MILESTONES ( In site 1986 except ? ) and in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1." In OS 1" 1835, Bryant and Jefferies. 26: ? Amersham, rd. to hosp. ? N. of Mkt. Hall. In same notes unde Milestones C in red box. In pencil [ No mention of milestones in TMs up to 1808 ]. 1741 Geo. II c 15 Cont. Act - MSs to be erected. TM. 1808 Mr Herring to be paid when " [mile]stones properly and rightly spelt are placed". TM.1810 50 Geo.III - Rd to be measured, MSs and posts to be erected. G9.1. 1823 John King to measure the T.P. road and prepare a map or plan for use of the Trustees [See T3/51-P.R.O.]. TM. 1829 ' Proper hand posts to be put up, Aylesbury and elsewhere with distances marked thereon. TM. 1834 Jan The Clerk to "write to the Clerk of Oak Lane Trust stating that various improvements by shortening the road have been made and the Trustees, presuming that similar improvements have been made on the Oak Lane Trust, wish to be informed whether the milestones on the Oak Lane Trust have been placed accurately from the last mile-stone on the Oxford Road ….". TM.1834 July "…. Measure distance from the 18th milestone on Oxford road…. To ascertain - where respective milestones (to Buckingham) ought to stand". TM. 1835 24th March " that the present milestones in this Trust be taken up, and new faced and lettered and painted, and direct they measure the turnpike road from the 18th milestone on the Uxbridge road from London". TM, 1858 MSs to be painted. G1.2.1868 March Surveyor to report of state of milestones and "cost of putting them in good order". TM 1868 October Tenders for repairing and re-writing milestones - Mr Hodgkins: at 3/- per stone accepted. TM. 1871 Handposts to be painted and repaired "throughout". TM.1966 Extract, 'Bucks Life', Nov. - Bucks Milestones, R.I. Haynes, Tatling End to Amersham, c. 1750.
[ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1).
This type of milestone is recorded in the extensive study by Peter Gulland of Toll Roads in Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 Wendover and Oak Lane 1751 p129. There are 116 milemarkers are left in Bucks out of a possible 230 maximum recorded orginally in County. 17 on this road orignally, all re-engraved in 1831. 11 remain on this route. Square plan with pyramidal top inscription on one face . After WW 2 not all were replaced in correct places. Two in Amersham on same side of road others alternate sides because road numbered from 2 ends towards the middle. (B2).
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18th to 19th Century milestone on A413 next to Town Hall in Amersham may be missing
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