Milestone on old A421
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Description
18th to 19th Century milestone on old A421 at Little Tingewick may be missing
Probable eighteenth to nineteenth century milestone on old A421 at junction of B4031. May be missing was opposite telephone exchange. On "All Historic Layers" database inscription Buckingham 3 Bicester 7. Confirmed by handwritten notes under Milestones-Types Buckingham to Banbury - L1. ( A421). " Stone. Flat face parallel to road. Letters engraved now painted". Note O.S. maps will show present positons- may not coincide with historical positions. In same notes under " L. Milestones on Ground (A421) No NGR recorded. Parish Tingewick. No number on 1" OS 1835 recorded. Also in same notes under "MILESTONES (In site 1986 except?) and in red C1/2/3/4/5/6/7 L1 overleaf in blue N. from London". On OS 1" 1835 : 61: OOC. In same notes under L in red box. Milestones. 1744 17 Geo. II. Road to be measured and stones or posts to be erected. G4.2 underlined in red. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B1).
In Peter Gullands extensive study The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706-1881 this milestone is on The Buckingham and Hanwell Turnpike Road 1744 p. 121. This road extended from the north corner of Buckingham Town Hall to Hanwell parish in Warwickshire in the north, It controlled 20 1/2 miles 3 1/2 in Bucks between Buckingham and Finmere. Milestones, 3 survive in Bucks have rectangular cross section flat top with bevelled edges they are square to road with incised capital letters in arabic numerals on front face. After WW2 some milestones that were removed were not replaced or replaced in wrong spot. According to Jefferies there should be 230 mile markers in Bucks, 116 survive as modern a record. (B2).
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18th to 19th Century milestone on old A421 at Little Tingewick may be missing
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