The boundary marks today: List of missing marks

There are considerable difficulties in the way of trying to provide a complete list of missing marks. In many cases it is impossible to determine the exact position of missing marks accurately and in some areas, such as on the Thames at Sunbury, it is difficult to work out how many posts there were originally. In some cases an extant mark may be one that appears to be missing from a site a short distance away. The list below is my best attempt: it contains 66 entries.

Those that have disappeared have mostly been removed in the course of road widening or redevelopment, though there are stories of a post being stolen for scrap and another by a motorist who had run into it. Like the Times correspondent I was often pleasantly surprised to find posts still in position in busy built up areas. It is however disappointing that a number of posts have disappeared between 1972 and now for no apparent reason.

The number in the first column derives from the list of marks published in my The coal duties of the City of London and their boundary marks as explained in numbering of the marks. Eight marks have a plain number without a following lower-case letter, indicating that it is a post which was listed there; the remaining 58 have a number with a letter indicating that it is one that was not. The type of boundary mark is given in column 2. For each mark also a description of its location and its National Grid Reference are given, together with an indication of when it was last seen and by when it is known to have disappeared.

No	Type	NGR	Location	Last seen	Date missing	Circumstances
0a	1	TQ4988981499	N bank of River Thames W of mouth of Beam River	1921	By 1967	Presumably disappeared during building of Ford works ca 1930.
0b	2	TQ4990681559	W bank of Beam River 50 m N of River Thames	1921	By 1967	Presumably disappeared during building of Ford works ca 1930.
0c	4	TQ5014882810	N side of railway, W of Beam River, E of Thames Avenue	1952	By 1966
0d	2	TQ5023383065	New Road, W of Beam river at Beam Bridge		By 1966	Presumably disappeared in road widening
0e	2d	TQ5080684190	S side of Dagenham Road, W of Beam River at Dagenham Beam Bridge	1966	1967	Disappeared during reconstruction of bridge 1966
0f	5	TQ5167085460	N side of railway, W of Beam river 85 m W of Upper Rainham Road	1952 (base only)	by 1966	Not affected by the 1932 quadrupling as base still there in 1952
2a	2	TQ4898587761	N side of Crow Lane, 300 m E of Whalebone Lane South, approx outside No 332		by 1966
9a	2	TQ4550497000	On bridlepath 900m W of Piggotts Farm (site now under M11 motorway S of footbridge)		by 1966	Site now under M11 motorway, but disappeared long before motorway was built.
13a	2	TL4296201731	Beside farm track N of Copped Hall		by 1966	Position of boundary marked wrongly on some Area Coal Duties maps
17	2g	TL3921904353	S side of Colemans Lane at junction with St. Leonards Road	1972	1972	Vandalised
24a	2	TL3160405814	Wormley Wood 650 m W of post 24		By 1966
25a	2	TL2977904272	E side of Carbone Hill, S of Postern Bridge	1964	By 1966	Said to have been smashed by motorist
29a	2	TL2578702340	W side of Osborne Road, 20 m S of junction with Heath Road, approx outside No 35		By 1964
32	2c	TL2302603143	W side of Warrengate Road at junction with Hawkshead Lane	1972	mid 1980s
44a	2	TQ1479199703	E side of Oakridge Lane, 270 m N of junction with Blackbirds Lane		By 1964	Shown further N, at junction of Oakridge Lane with bridleway leading N from Blackbirds Farm (TQ1488699974) on Area of Coal Duties maps
44b	2	TQ1469299453	W side of Kemprow, at junction with Blackbirds Lane		By 1964
44c	2	TQ1205598084	N side of Bushey Mill Lane, E of Colne at Bushey Mill Bridge		By 1964
46a	2	TQ1191096125	E side of railway embankment 250 m S of Bushey Hall Road where electricity pylon now stands		By 1965
48a	2	TQ1198595069	E side of Pinner Road opposite Oxhey Avenue		By 1965
48b	2	TQ1205594960	E side of Pinner Road, S side of Villiers Road, at their junction		By 1965
56	2e	TQ0693091511	S side of White Hill, N side of Jackets Lane at their junction	1972	by 1980
63a	2	TQ0405991112	E side of Park Lane S of bridge over River Colne		By 1961
63b	2	TQ0449288309	On Moorfield Road E of Green Bridge		By 1961	Disappeared "when Green Bridge was built"
64a	2	TQ0525986171	On footpath from Denham Lock to Denham, on E bank of River Colne by footbridge		By 1961
65a	2	TQ0511684610	S side of Oxford Road E of bridge over River Colne		By 1961	Probably disappeared when bridge was rebuilt
66a	3c	TQ0456583513	S side of St Johns Road in parapet of Long Bridge, 100 m W of junction with Cowley Mill Road	1973	1973-1974	Disappeared when the bridge was reconstructed
68a	2	TQ0478081039	At W end of Packet Boat Lane, E bank of River Colne by Iver Ford		By 1939	Disappeared "between the wars"
71	5	TQ0522980030	E side of Colnbrook branch line 60 m S of main line behind No 148 Fairway Avenue	1972	by 1980
73a	2	TQ0430677339	E side of Bigley Ditch just N of former confluence with Wyrardisbury River (site now under M25 motorway)		By 1961	Said to have been smashed by a tractor while ploughing
75a	5	TQ0377076960	E side of railway S of Shire Ditch N of former Colnbrook station 350 m N of Bath Road	1965	By 1972	Disappeared following building of new warehouse
76	2e	TQ0366076981	On S bank of Shire Ditch at N end of garden of No 26 The Hawthorns by fence of Coln Industrial Estate	1972	by 2008	May have been removed when new units and fence were constructed on Coln Industrial Estate
80	2e	TQ0259775726	S side of Horton Road, as realigned, 500 m W of junction with Poyle Road Originally at: TQ0248075570 S side of Horton Road 500 m W of junction with Poyle Road (site now under Wraysbury Reservoir)	1993	by 2004	Said to have been uprooted and later stolen
82a	2	TQ0263072024	S side of Wraysbury Road, E of junction with Lammas Drive and County Ditch		By 1961	Disappeared "when new bridge was built"
90a	2	TQ0729765845	In wood at W end of Shepperton Lock Island		By 1965	Disappeared "when new channel was cut"
94a	2	TQ0953766513	E side of footpath to Thames by wall of former Mount Felix house, 60 m NE of Bridge Street		By 1965
94b	2	TQ0993367136	N bank of River Thames, 120 m SW of Tumbling Bay weir (site now under houses in Felix Lane)		By 1965	Presumably disappeared when riverside houses built
94c	2	TQ1057968201	At SW end of Sunbury Lock Ait, 320 m SW of the footbridge		By 1965
94d	2	TQ1080468471	In middle of Sunbury Lock Ait, 30 m N of the footbridge		By 1965
96a	2	TQ1140968797	N bank of River Thames at E end of Rivermead Island, W of former creek between the island and Swans Rest Island		By 1965
96b	2	TQ1159768925	N bank of River Thames at SW end of Sunbury Court Island (site now under No 5 Sunbury Court Island)		By 1965	Presumably disappeared when houses built on the island
100a	2	TQ1303266871	W side of Fieldcommon Lane, W of field called The Platts	c 1950	By 1965
103a	2	TQ1406465744	N side of Lower Green Road, approx outside No 112		By 1965
112a	2e	TQ1510661840	80 m N of Stokesheath Farm Cottages on N side of former farm track	1965	By 1972	Destroyed or buried when field and track levelled
113a	2	TQ1558962478	350 m SE of Horringdon Farm in field boundary		By 1965	Only marked on ACD maps not OS
114a	2	TQ1656161854	S side of Fairoak Lane, 730 m W of Malden Rushett crossroads	1963 (NRIM)	By 1965	Disappeared following road widening
155a	2	TQ2413455678	Brighton Road, opposite entrance to Kingswood Warren		By 1964	Possibly the same post as 155: Area of Coal Duties maps show this one, OS shows 155
156a	2	TQ2475956574	S side of Waterhouse Lane just W of where road now crosses the railway		By 1964	Presumably disappeared in 1897 when the railway was built
156b	2	TQ2476356581	N side of Waterhouse Lane just W of where road now crosses the railway		By 1964	Presumably disappeared in 1897 when the railway was built
165	4	TQ2889656727	W side of Redhill railway line, 100 m S of Star Bridge	1965	by 1973	Reported in 1973 as 'taken down'. According to BR damaged in a landslip and removed. Was probably actually missing when "The coal duties of the City of London and their boundary marks" was published in 1972.
165a	2	TQ2949956710	W side of Woodplace Lane by footpath opposite Park Lane		1949	Said to have been removed by Hospital Management Committee
166a	2	TQ3189456356	At edge of wood 50 m N of Magazine Road, 250 m W of Green Lane		By 1957
166b	2	TQ3188356532	S side of The Grove, 100 m W of junction with Green Lane, approx outside No 32		By 1957
166c	2	TQ3196656603	N side of The Grove, opposite junction with Green Lane		By 1957
168a	2	TQ3296357313	E side of Hayes Lane at junction with Buxton Lane		By 1957	Presumably disappeared during expansion of RAF Kenley during WW2
172a	2	TQ3463157276	S side of Succombs Hill opposite junction with Court Bushes Road		By 1957	Presumably disappeared when Succombs Hill was realigned for the construction of the Caterham bypass in 1930s
177a	2	TQ3683558707	S side of Green Hill Lane at junction with Chelsham Road		By 1957
180a	2	TQ3800860031	E side of Farleigh Court Road 75 m S of Little Farleigh Green	1957	By 1965	Said to have been stolen for scrap
182	2d	TQ3848261036	W side of Featherbed Lane 900 m N of Fickleshole	1972	by 1986	Said to have been uprooted by a car and subsequently stolen for scrap
185a	2	TQ4038262198	At Furze Bottom, 600 m SE of Layhams Farm		By 1965
192a	2	TQ4557563387	W side of Green Street Green High Street to E of Royal Oak		By 1965
195a	2	TQ4584564364	N side of S carriageway of Warren Road, 120 m W of junction with Warnford Road, approx opposite No 32		By 1965	ACD maps show it further W nearer Sevenoaks Road
198a	2	TQ4696866082	Between Court Road and Gillmans Road N of junction with Avalon Road (site now under houses)		By 1965	Shown on some ACD maps but not OS. If it existed would have disappeared when area was developed in 1930s
200a	2	TQ4985864948	W side of Skeet Hill Lane opposite junction with Daltons Road		By 1965
206a	2	TQ5035269489	N side of London Road, approx opposite Malvern Lodge, 120 m SE of junction with Birchwood Road		By 1965
215	5	TQ5240674695	S side of railway, E side of Maiden Lane behind fence	1972 (base only)	By 1986	Only the base was extant in 1972
219	2a	TQ0421294187	Outside Shepherd Primary School, Shepherd's Lane, Rickmansworth Originally at: TQ0518993449 At foot of front steps of Stockers House	1972	1972	Not on 1861 boundary: at Stockers House to indicate connection with coal duties. "Accidentally destroyed" after its move.

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