Milestone on A40
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Type
Description
18th to 19th Century milestone on West Wycombe Road moved to this location in the nineteenth century
1883 MAP MARKS 'MILESTONE' AT NGR. (B1).
MILESTONE ERECTED 1744 BY SIDE OF WEST WYCOMBE ROAD NEAR JUNCTION OF DESBOROUGH PARK ROAD. MOVED FROM THERE TO PRESENT SITE SOME YEARS AGO, THANKS TO ALDERMAN AVERY WHO LIVED NEARBY (ILLUS) (B1-2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes of microfiched OSD Surveyors Drawinggs (1814) and one inch OSD map (1835). Bucks County Museum number XLII sheet 42 now in Centre for Bucks Studies. West and High Wycombe to Beaconsfield route (B. On page 5 of notes. Original position and benchmark on 'All Historic Layers' map 85188 96380. Inscription: London 30 Oxford 24. In same notes under J in red box Milestones. 1825 Bryant- Marked from W. Wycombe to Bushey Leys. In same notes under B in red box. Milestones. 1788 Jefferys - nos. 16 - 34. 1825 Bryant - nos. 16 - 34. 1835 O.S.1" - . Nos. 16 -37 (alteration of county boundary). See also underlined in blue. 1814 O.S.D. Surveyors Drawings. (microfiche) Mileages written on map. 1885 O.S.6" - positions marked + mileages written in. R.I.E. Haynes - " Bucks Milestones" Extract 'Bucks Life' (Nov 1966). [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
Recorded in "Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire 1706 -1881.Peter Gulland." Road 4. Beaconsfield and Stokenchurch Turnpike Road 1719. page 91. This road is a section of A40 London to Oxford Road between Beaconsfield and Stokenchurch now by passes High Wycombe, Piddington and Dashwood Hill. Milestones were put up in 1744. One of 116 left in out of a possible 230 mileposts/stones in Bucks. Originaly Roman numerals on front face angled to the road. Jefferies recorded 13 stones 1766-68 from London 24 just west of Beaconsfield Old Town to London 36 Marlow Road Stokenchurch, sometime after 1744 all stones were turned round and arabic numerals carved on 2 new faces some stones we were missed and have no inscription or both types of text. 9 exist today after World War II they them back haphazardly. Publication consulted is in HER and is an extensive study of development of toll roads and of 24 toll roads in Buckinghamshire and their connections. [Copy in HER] (B4).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
18th to 19th Century milestone on West Wycombe Road moved to this location in the nineteenth century
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