Location

Sign

Result

AVON/GLOUCESTERSHIRE

A 4174 - about half-way between M4 and Kingswood

Distance to lay-by shown [A in metres

[AWAITING ACTION]

BEDFORDSHIRE (9)

Bedford, Priory Country Park (Bedford Borough Council)

Two signs on entrance to car park: '2.0m'

Amended by anti-metric activists to read ' 6' 6” '

Hinxworth

'200 metres' to Caravan Site, Loves Lane

[AWAITING ACTION]

Shefford; A 600 on Shefford to Bedford Road******

Distance to Forestry Commission site in metres (two signs, 250 metres)

Amended to read in yards, once with a temporary amendment, since then with three more permanent amendments (three times removed by the Forestry Commission)

Shillington Village

Two signs 'No footway for 450 metres' at either end of village

Removed by anti-metric activists and Council informed

Toddington

Three metric long-distance footpath distance signs 'Hunstanton: 235 km’ 'Overton Hill 161 km’, 'Leighton Buzzard 13km' (outside 'Oddfellows Arms)

Amended into miles by anti-metric activists

BERKSHIRE (Royal County of) (13)

Runnymede

Finger post signs to 'Bridge and River' and 'St. Peter's Hospital' in metric

Changed to '1m' and 1.5m' after representations by Edward Huxley

Windsor Great Park (A 30)

Entrance to park: '500 metres' - just inside the Park along A 30

Amended by Deputy Chief Park Ranger to yards after representations by UKIP and BWMA member Ted Huxley

Wokingham - Dinton* Pastures Country Park (run by Borough Council)

Wooden noticeboard on entry to the park, all in kilometres (no miles in brackets brackets); yellow traffic sign: Alligator teeth ' 115mm (41/2”) '

Three separate plates in miles put over the metric distances; 115mm and covered over - work of antimetric activists

Wokingham - Sandford Lane

6 Road Traffic roundels ' 2. 0 ' all showing ' 2.0 ' with ' 6' 6” ' underneath

whited over with paint in each case by anti-metric activists

BIRMINGHAM (WEST MIDLANDS) (51)

Canal Basin (Broad Street / Gas Street basin

Pedestrian signs only in metres around the canal basin and on the canals (on low cast-iron around 300 in all

50 metric distances amended to date with equivalent distances in miles or yards [MORE AWAITING ACTION] signs)

Edgbaston

School entrance sign in Metres

Covered over by anti-metric activist

Kitts Green

Metric distance sign

[AWAITING ACTION]

Lea Hall, on Macksdown Lane, just off Meadway East (B4128), in Solihull/Birmingham area

Metric distance sing to site entrance - '50m' (or '100m')

[AWAITING ACTION]

New Street Station

Signs for passengers to lifts in metric

[AWAITING ACTION]

BRISTOL

A 38 – About 2 miles SW of City Centre

Sign to low bridge on roundabout - triangle with only '3.3m' on it

[AWAITING ACTION]

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Sign to Observatory: 200 metres

[AWAITING ACTION]

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Royal Hotel: Car Park 50m

[AWAITING ACTION]

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (131)

A 41 - off Junction 9 on the M 40 (Bicester turn-off)

Two signs to pedestrian crossing: 250 metres and 200 metres

Replaced in British units by the Highways Agency after representations by Austin Spreadbury

A 421 / B 4033 Great Horwood, north Buckinghamshire

Temporary Sign: ''Road Closed 1,000 METRES' (erected by Anglian Water)

Covered with black tape by construction company after representations by Alan Heath

Beaconsfield Railway Station

Car Park Height Restriction Sign in Metres

Changed to feet and inches after a letter to Chiltern Railways by Steve Humphries. They said they were changing the sign to feet and inches because they were more 'user-friendly'

Buckingham** (River Ouse Riverside) Walk)

A series of double-sided wooden pedestrian signs in metric along the 'Riverside Walk'

110 distances on 43 double-sided fingers on 18 signposts amended by anti-metric activists. The Council pulled off twelve plates with 22 metric distances on them. These have now been replaced by an anti-metric activist

Buckingham (Town Centre)

Sign on wall: 'United Reformed Church – 200m’

Anti-metric activist converted 'm' to 'yds'

Buckingham (Town Centre)

Restriction sign for long vehicles over 20' (6.1m)

Metric distance deleted by anti-metric activist

Buckingham - Maids Moreton, Mill Lane

Five road width signs all saying '2.25m' or '2.3m', some with metric distances on as well

Metric signs were supplemented with ones in British widths (7' 6”) by the Council. [The metric ones have now been removed by an anti-metric activist]

Cliveden House (National Trust)

Two signs to car park '400 metres' on entrance

Covered over by anti-metric activists

Flackwell Heath

Six temporary red-and-white signs warning of distance to site entrance ahead (600 M, 400 M, 200 M)

Amended by anti-metric activists to read 'yds' instead of 'M'

High Wycombe Frogmore

Distance to road width

Amended to read in yards by the Council as a result of written representations by Steve Humphreys

Swanbourne

Two metric signs giving the distance to Swanbourne House School: '100 m'

The larger one has been amended by an anti-metric activist to read '100 yds'

Wendover - B 4009

Metric distance on a sign for a garden buildings firm

‘Corrected' by anti-metric activist

CAMBRIDGESHIRE (198)

A10 Temporary Road Works at Foxton Level Crossing

6 temporary distance signs to road works: '800 MTR', '600 MTR', '40 MTR'

Painted over by anti-metric activists and 'yds' substituted for 'MTR'

A 1037 Cambridge to Haverhill Road (about 6 miles S.E. of Cambridge)

Sign: 'Copley Hill Commercial Centre: 150m'

Amended by anti-metric activist to read '150 yds'. A similar sign on the northbound side was changed by officials to read '250 yds'

A 1307, about two miles north of Babraham near turning to Shelford

Two large direction signs giving (3) heights to low bridge as ' 4.6m '

Changed by anti-metric activists to read: ' 15' 1” ' (one of them had to be repaired)

A 1198, between Royston and Huntingdon

Two road width signs in metres only ('2.0m')

Amended by anti-metric activists to read ' 6' 6” '

A 505 (just west of Royston)

Eight metric distance signs from '200mtrs' to '800 mtrs' accompanying 'Danger-Road Works Ahead' signs

Removed by anti-metric activists

Addenbrooks Hospital

Two signs in hospital grounds: 'Stop 25M’

Physically amended by anti-metric activists to read: '25 yds'

Anglesey Abbey (north east of Cambridge)

Sign to entrance: '300m'

Physically amended by anti-metric activist to read: '350 yds'

Babraham - on road off A 1307 about one mile north of village

Car Park sign: ' 2.0m ' ( 6' 6” )

Metric sign obliterated and brackets painted out by anti-metric activists

Bar Hill, west of Cambridge on A14 heading east

Metric sign: '100m' (or '200m')

[AWAITING ACTION]

Cambridge, Nightingale Road

Sign to road humps, '30m>'

Removed by anti-metric activists

Cambridge, Queens College

Five notices giving directions to parts of college in metres

Each now has a metal plate stuck the over it giving the equivalent distance in yards (anti-metric activists)

Cambridge, Botanical Gardens

Sign on Trumpington Road giving distance to gardens as '350 metres’

Anti-metric activists stuck metal plate over it saying '1/4 mile'

Duxford, A 505 about 1/4 mile west of M 11

Sign: 'No right turn 300m ahead'

Illegal distance covered over by anti-metric activists with black paint

Ely Town Centre

11 fingerpost signs with 62 separate double 'fingers' on them distances to place the town centre in

Anti-metric activists swooped on -sided 10 Nov 2001; replaced the metric giving distances with 124 metal plates s in the showing distances in miles and metres yards. Training video made. Press & TV reports available. Council conceded their signs were illegal and said the new 'Imperial' signs would stay

Histon, just south of A

14 Three road width signs in yards with metres in brackets

Metres covered over by anti-metric activists with parcel tape

Huntingdon Ring Road

4 road width signs '3.0m'

Physically amended to read '9' 10”'

Littleport

Two unnecessary metric height signs at level-crossing (also illegal as showing height to two decimal places - 2.51m

Removed

Longstowe, on A 1198

Private metric distance signs to 'The Red 100 metres

Converted with the agreement House', of the proprietor to '100 yards' and '200 yards'

Manea Nature Reserve

10 signs in metric units only

Covered over by anti-metric activist

March, Broad Street

Red traffic signs including the words '60 metres ahead'

Amended by the Council after representations by UKIP member Len Baynes

Newmarket, on B1065 near railway bridge

Two metric-only height signs: ' 4.2m '

Removed by anti-metric activists

Newmarket, Synford Poynton Hotel

Sign to hotel: ' 350m '

[AWAITING ACTION]

Peterborough

Three illegal dual width signs at entrance to industrial estate, East Peterborough

Metric widths painted out by antimetric activists

Shalford, levelcrossing

Four dual Imperial/ metric height signs at level crossing

Metric heights (4.6m) obliterated by anti-metric activists

Shalford area

Nine blue-and white dual Imperial metric signs to height restriction

Metric heights (4.6m) obliterated by anti-metric activists

Wimpole Hall**

Sign giving two distances to parts of Wimpole Hall in metres (25m and 400m)

Changed to '30 yds' and ' 1/4 mile' by anti-metric activists

See also under Northampton on - River Nene

CHESHIRE (3)

Crewe/Nantwich Canalside Walks

A series of metric footpath signs alongside the Crewe and Nantwich canal network

[AWAITING ACTION. Several sites in Crewe and Nantwich investigated but signs not found)]

A34 near Congleton

Metric distance sign

Replaced by Cheshire County Council with sign in Imperial units

M6 in Cheshire

Distance signs on M6 in kilometres

Two (262.0 and 293.0) removed by an anti-metric activists

CORNWALL (14)

East Looe

4 metric distance sign Looe Bridge and c

s at Amended to British units by the Council car park after representations by local activists

Eden Project, St. Austell

2 metric distance signs on approach road to the Eden Project (in km)

Changed to Imperial by the Eden Project after being requested to do so by Cornwall County Council after letterwriting campaign organised by John Bass, Chairman of Cornwall UKIP

Forestry Commission site (to be identified more precisely)

Metric distances on green signs

[AWAITING ACTION]

Fowey

Three metric distances to Public Toilets

Replaced with signs in yards by the local Council after representations by local anti-metric campaigners

Goss Moor

Dual height sign on low bridge where there to have been a number of crashes

The sign is legal, but *confusing* seem [AWAITING ACTION]

Grampound

Two metric distance signs

Converted to yards by local Council after protest by Cornwall UKIP (reported by John Bass)

Tamar Bridge (A 38)

Sign 1 mile east of Tamar Bridge gave road metric only

British unit width sign added after width in representations by Bruce Robertson of Trago Mills

Tintagel

Sign to public toilet: '250m'

Council say they won't change the signs as 'it's private' [AWAITING ACTION]

Torpoint

Two distance signs to Anthony House in

Changed by local Council to yards metres after representations by UKIP Cornwall Chairman Jon Bass

DENBIGHSIRE (WALES) (2)

Acrefair, near Trevor (main road)

Two triangular car park traffic signs on entrance: ' 2.2m '

[AWAITING ACTION]

Moel Famau (Forestry Commission), near Ruthin

Two signs to Forestry Commission Car Park: ' 200m '

Amended by anti-metric activists to read: ' 200 YDS'

DEVON (24)

A 38 Parkway (between Tamar Bridge and Marsh Mills Roundabout (Plymouth area)

Sign erected by contract- ors Mott McDonald warning motorists of road works for the 'next six kilometres'

Changed by contractors after representations from C.I.B. activist David Owen, who initially reported the matter to the Police

Bradninch

Sign with 10 doublesided fingerpost signs

Amended to Imperial units by antimetric activists

Exeter (City Centre)

Sign: 'Give Way 50 metres'

Changed to yards by the Council after representations by Roger Kendall (reported in 'Daily Telegraph')

Highampton, Burton Art Gallery/Tourist Information Centre

Two metric signs: 'Long Stay Parking 100 Metres’

[AWAITING ACTION] Reported by Mrs Jo France

Totnes

Sign under Town Council meeting room: '4.3m’ (no Imperial height)

[AWAITING ACTION]

Westward Ho!

Sign: 'Toilets 150m'

Replaced by Council with sign '150 yds' after representations by E Winkfield

Winkleigh

Sign: 'Toilets 150m'

Replaced by Council with sign '150 yds' after representations by Mike France and Charles Tapp

DORSET (49)

Bournemouth Promenade

Signs along the promenade giving distances to toilets, nosmoking zones and beach offices in metres

22 distances on six signs amended by anti-metric activists

Bournemouth (Southbourne)

Sign outside 'Bistro' restaurant on Soutbourne promenade: dangerous to swim at 20 metres

#NAME? activists to read: '22 yds'

Bournemouth (Hurn) Airport

Signs saying '25 metres' to road humps (two signs?)

Changed to Imperial distances after letters from Allan Tallett of UKIP New Forest

Christchurch

Road traffic metric distance sign on the highway

Replaced with sign in British units after letter from UKIP member Miss Rosemary Nixon

Christchurch - Priory/** Quay area

Three double-sided cast iron pedestrian signs giving distances in metres ('500m', '250m', '100m')

Amended by anti-metric activists to Imperial distances

Christchurch - Stanpit and Tuckton

Four car park height signs: ' 2.0m ' or ' 2.1m’

Changed to ' 6' 6” ' or ' '6' 9” ' by antimetric activists

Lyme Regis

Metric distance signs; two near Lifeboat Station (Grid Ref. 345932), two on the coast path (Grid Ref. 344933)

Signs '75 metres' to Car Park and '30 mtrs' to Toilet amended to '100 yds' and '50 yds' by anti-metric activists. Footpath sign 'Footpath Diversion: 150 metres' changed to '170 yds' (both sides of finger sign)

Norden Station, near Corfe Castle

Signs to Norden Station: '200 metres' and '50 metres

Sign '50 meters' found and changed to '50 yds' (to cycleway). Other sign AWAITING ACTION. Also a freestanding yellow-and-black metric sign saying '100 metres' in the same area removed

Poole Promenade

Two metric signs to Toilets

Removed by anti-metric activists

Matchams: Forestry Commission

Sign to Forestry Commission Car Park: '100 m'

The 'm' covered up with a sign saying 'YDS' by anti-metric activists

St. Leonards (A 31, westbound)

Sign to roadworks ahead (T.J. Brent): '100 metres'

Amended to yds after representations by Wng. Cdr. Alan Tallett

Studland (Shell Bay)

'Sign: 'Naturists will be seen 900mtrs beyond this point'

Amended to read '1/2 mile' by antimetric activists

Worth Matravers

Sign to car park: '100m' and '400 metres'

Changed by anti-metric activists to '100 yds' and ' 1/4 mile' respectively

DUMFRIESSHIRE (SCOTLAND) (8)

Auldgirth

Estimated 8 signs along a cycleway around the A76 at Auldgirth

Demetricated on order of the Scottish Executive after letter from Active Resistance to Metrication

COUNTY DURHAM (1)

Birtley, Lord Lawson School

Distance of road humps: '300 metres'

Amended to read '300 yards' by antimetric activists

Chester-le-Street

Metric Distance sign on industrial estate

Council ordered it to be removed or replaced with Imperial sign after letter from local resident Elizabeth Hewitson. It was replaced

Durham

Metric fingerposts in town centre

[AWAITING ACTION] - but one sign (double-sided) reading 'D.L.A. - 1 km' replaced with signs reading '3/4m'

Durham

Metric-only road traffic signs reported by Martin Reaper

[AWAITING ACTION]

Shotton Colliery Bruce Glasier Terrace

Sign to cycleway: 45m

Replaced by Council with signs saying '50 yds'

West Whickham

Sign to Garden Centre: 400 metres

Reported by Elizabeth Hewitson; amended to '1/4 mile' by anti-metric activists

EAST LOTHIAN (SCOTLAND) (14)

Musselburgh and Tranent area

Several (around 14) metric pedestrian signs

Amended into yards by Council after representations by William Scott (fingerpost)

ESSEX ( )

A 12 (Witham)

Two large dual height signs: ' 3.9m ' and ' 12' 9” ' on green-and-white traffic sign

Metric heights painted out by anti-metric activists

A 127 footpath signs east of junction with

Metric distances first, Imperial in brackets

Metric distances deleted by anti-metric activists

A 128 (4) 1-2 miles east of M 25 + (2) just west of Hadleigh (Rushbottom Lane) + (2) to Church Road (just east of the junction of A 127 and A 128 + (5) between Horndon-on-the-Hill and Little Burstead + (4) in the Little Burstead area plus four distances on a sign at Hutton + sign at Herongate (Old Dog Inn seen by Mrs Shirley Speight)

Green-and-white metric A footpath signs (Essex C.C.), most of them leading in kilometres with miles in brackets

mended into miles by anti-metric activists, apart from a sign to Old Hill Road in Langdon Hills Country Park which was amended by Basildon Council's footpaths officer (!)

A 120 Colchester to Coggeshall

Sign giving distance to narrow road in metres (blue-and-white sign)

Sign whited out and Council informed. Sign now removed by the Council

Abridge (Lambourne)

Metric-only footpath signs: 0.2KM and 0.4KM just below Lambourne Church

Replaced by anti-metric activists with signs saying '200yds' and '400yd'

Basildon (Vange)

Three double-sided Essex C.C. signs giving distances of 1.0 or 1.1 kilometres

All amended by anti-metric activists to read ' 3/4 ' Press reports available

Basildon Council

Footpath signs giving distances only in kilometres

Amended by Basildon Council's Public Rights of Way/Cycling Officer, Terry Buck, who says he 'has been obliterating the offending measurements by spraying them out with black paint' (!) Press reports available

Brentwood, Town centre Car Park

Four ' 2.1m ' height restriction signs

Replaced by Tony Bennett with signs saying ' 6' 9” ' (later replaced by the Council erecting dual height signs Press reports available (The Council claimed the interference with the signs was a crime but later withdrew their evidence

Brentwood, Woodways 1 Bridge

0 Dual roundels in 8 metric (' 2.1m ') and Imperial (' 6' 10”) over railway bridge and two blue-and-white signs warning of road restrictions 100 yards ahead in ' 2.1 metres’ (' 6' 10'' ')

metric roundels 'blacked out' in red paint by anti-metric activists and two blue-and-white signs amended by deleting the metric distances '

Chelmsford Oliver Way/Melbourne

4 signs to road humps in metres

Changed to yards after letter from UKIP M.E.P. Jeffrey Titford

Chelmsford Lady Lane (Chelmsford Borough Council)

Blue-and-white weight limit sign: 7.5 tonnes '250m ahead'

Changed by Council after letter from ARM to '250 yds'

Chelmsford, A 414,** entrance to Hylands House

Entrance to Hylands House '400 metres'

Amended by anti-metric activists to '1/4 mile'

Clacton-on-Sea

Sign in park with metric distance

Amended into yards with permanent marker by 80-year-old anti-metric activist

Clacton-on-Sea, Cliff top

Two metric signs on cliff top to toilets

Amended into yards by anti-metric activists

Clacton-on-Sea,** Martello Car Park

Two signboards in metric distances

Amended professionally by local antimetric activists into yards

Clacton-on-Sea, near Martello Car park

Two cast iron finger post signs (double-sided): Toilets '260m' and '

'Imperial plates' put on by anti-metric activists: '300 yds' and '350 YDS' 320m' respectively

Coggeshall

Blue-and-white metric distance sign ' 500m’ to weak bridge

Removed by anti-metric activists

Earls Colne

Two blue-and-white metric signs ' 350m’ to weak bridge

Removed by anti-metric activists

Epping Green, outside Travellers' Friend pub

Footpath sign to 'Lodge Farm', '0.8km'

Anti-metric activists replaced it with sign saying ' 1/2m'

Epping Green/Upper Nazeing**

Three wooden footpath signs, with four distances, all in kilometres

Amended by anti-metric activists [one set re-amended after plates taken off]

Essex Way Footpath, Near Greensted-juxta-Ongar**

Four double-sided footpath signs in metric only

New British distances put on with attractive brown-and-white plates [re-amended with black-and-white plates after plates taken off]

Frinton-on-Sea**

Cast-iron sign on cliff-top with 2 double-sided 'fingers' with metric distances

Activists erected 4 'Imperial' plates covering over the metric distances

Frinton-on-Sea

Sign at south Frinton with 3 double-sided 'fingers' giving metric distances

Activists erected 6 'Imperial' plates covering over the metric distances

Great Hallingbury, Tile Kiln Lane

Two metric-only bridge height signs (' 3.8m’)

Removed by local anti-metric activist and Council informed

Harlow - Old Harlow, Chippingfield

Stone footpath posts giving two distances: 400m and 1.1km (erected by Harlow Council about 30 years ago)

Amended by anti-metric activists to read: '400 yds' and '3/4 m'

Harlow, Harberts Road

2 distance signs saying '200 metres'

Replaced by the Council with signs saying '200 yards'. Press reports available

Harlow - Entrance to new car park, Central Avenue

Dual height sign: 2.0m and 6' 7” (twice)

Metric distances painted out by anti-metric activists

Harlow, London Road, Old Harlow

Temporary red-and-white sign: “Site Entrance: Lorries Turning Ahead 100 Metres”

Removed by anti-metric activists

Harlow, River Way Industrial Estate, Amenity Centre

Metric heights given in preference to Imperial on two low height signs

Anti-metric activists covered over the metric heights. Council then erected new dual unit signs [AWAITING ACTION]

Harlow, road next to Outdoor Pursuits Centre

2 saying distance to weak bridge '150 metres'

Over-labelled by the Council with signs saying '164 yards'. Press reports available

Harlow, Third Avenue (near new Town Hall/ Shopping Centre)******

Metric only height sign: '2.1m'

Removed twice by anti-metric activist and Council informed. Dual height sign: 6' 10” and 2.1m now erected plus another saying '2.1m' . Dual height sign - metric removed (other sign AWAITING ACTION)

Hatfield Forest

Two signs banning cars on the common 'within 15 metres' of road edge

Professionally amended to read '16 yards'

Little Bromley, near Manningtree

Two signs: 'No footway for 600m. approx'

Removed by anti-metric activists and Council informed

Lower Nazeing

Three green-and-white Lea Valley footpath signs, all in kilometres (12 distances altogether)

Amended to imperial units by antimetric activists

Marks Tey - Elm Lane, off A 120 about 2 miles east of Marks Tey

Two blue-and-white signs giving metric distances (300m) to road width restriction ahead

Illegal distances blacked out by antimetric activists

Matching Green to Hatfield Heath Road

Four warning signs to road works, 2 each marked '200 metres'

All four illegal distances covered over by anti-metric activists. As a metres' and '400 result the company concerned had to over-label around another 80 signs across Essex and Hertfordshire with red-and-white labels giving distances in yards instead of metres

Mountnessing, near Brentwood

5 road width signs giving the width as '2.1m'

Panted out by anti-metric activist and '6' 9”' substituted. Council forced after several letters to concede they were guilty of an 'oversight'. Press reports available. The Council erected two separate roundels as required by the law - the metric one on top of course! But now unknown hands have removed the metric roundels Press reports available

Newport - village centre

Two metric-only signs giving height to '4.34m'

Removed by anti-metric activists and bridge of Council informed

Newport, on A 1183, just north of Newport

Height restriction sign at entrance to mansion saying '3.0m'

Amended by anti-metric activist to read: ' 9' 10” '

Saffron Walden

Metric distance sign to Ashdon Road Commercial Estate north-east Saffron Walden: metres'

Amended to '200 yds' by anti-metric activist t of '200

Sewardstonebury: Scout Chingford

Sign to Scout Offices: 100 metres

Replaced by anti-metric activists Headquarters near with sign saying '200 yards' (more accurate)

Sewardstonebury: Just outside Scout Headquarters, near Chingford

Footpath sign with 4 metric-only distances on (3.5 Km and 2.1 Km)

Replaced by anti-metric activists with signs saying '21/4m' and '11/4m'

Southend Promenade

32 circular signs on Southend Promenade giving distances every '500 metres'

Anti-metric activist replaced the signs with professional circular labels in miles and furlongs. Press reports available. Amended signs still there, August 2002

Southend Promenade

2 signs to Toilets in yards with metres in brackets

Metric distances deleted by antimetric activists

Southend Promenade

Sign to 'Toilets' 120m

Covered up by Council after letter from UKIP

South Weald, Sandpit**** Lane (Brentwood)

Eight dual width signs, illegal under current regulations, giving width as ' 2.1m ' and 6' 10

Metric units neatly covered over with adhesive white computer labels (later amended by Council, then re-amended by anti-metric activists then re-re-amend by the Council back to dual units

Stansted Airport

Road sign 'Traffic Merging 50 metres'

'50 metres' painted out using black aerosol. Anti-metric activist arrested and charged. Charges dropped and activist successfully claimed Court costs. Press reports available. Sign later removed by B.A.A.

Stansted Airport

Sign at Bus Station: 'Lost Property office- 80m'

[AWAITING ACTION]

Thorpe-le-Soken Sneating Hall Lane

Warning sign: '70 metres’

Converted to read '80 yds' by antimetric activist [since the, replaced by the council with a sign saying '100 yds'

Thorndon Country Park (South) - close to A 128 (Essex County Council)

Two road width signs inside the car park both giving the width as ' 2.0m’

Metric signs scraped off and professional black lettering reading ' 6' 6” ' affixed instead

Warley, on A 128

2 footpath signs to various destinations in kilometres with miles in brackets afterwards (double-sided)

Kilometric distance and brackets covered over in black paint

Waltham Abbey (Epping Forest District Council)

Dual height sign to car park: ' 2.1m ' and ' 7'0” '

' 2.1m ' whited out by anti-metric activist

Waltham Abbey/ Sewardstonebury on A 112 I mile south of Waltham Abbey

Temporary Road Sign: “Road Works Ahead 200 MTRS” placed by site contractors Bell Frampton

Removed by Active Resistance to Metrication and the company and Epping Forest District Council informed

Walton-on-the-Naze

6 signs to toilets, all metric

Black-and-white signs in yards affixed by anti-metric activists

Walton-on-the Naze

6 signs to the nearest lifebelts, all in metric distances

Black-and-white signs in yards affixed by anti-metric activists

Wick Lane, Wickford

12 signs all either giving illegal metric distances to narrow road e.g. '400 metres' or illegal road width: '2.1m'

Illegal metric distances painted out in black leaving only British distances on them. Press reports available

Wickford, Runwell Chase

Large sign to Runwell Hospital, '600 metres'

Changed by anti-metric activist to: '600 yds'

Wickford, St. Mary's Church/Memorial Park

Double-sided footpath sign in the park: 'St. Mary's Church 0.3 km'

Changed by anti-metric activists to read '300 yds'

ESSEX/HERTS/NORTH LONDON BORDERS/LEE VALLEY

NAVIGATION (160)

Lee Valley Park

Around 200-plus (mostly footpath) fingerpost signs, all in metric distances

24 signs with 90 single- or double sided fingers amended by anti-metric activists into Imperial units (157 distances changed to date) Press reports available. Lea Valley Park then physically removed most of the amended signs and said they were seeking 'legal advice' on what distances to use on replacement signs! Press reports available

Still remaining: three sets of wooden finger posts, one between Broxbourne and Cheshunt, and two on the Waltham Forest/Hackney border

[AWAITING ACTION]

Lee Valley Car Park entrance signs

All stating ' 2.0m '

Four at Cheshunt amended to read ' 6' 6” '; two at Waltham Abbey

Lee Valley Park Cinema Picketts Lock

Two metric-only height signs: ' 3.8m '

[AWAITING ACTION]

GLOUCESTERSHIRE (2)

A 46, just south of M4 (junction 18)

Two large blue-and-white signs: width limit ' 2.75m ' in '200m'

Blacked out by anti-metric activists after previous attempts to black out the sign by other antimetric activists

Little Barrington, on A between Burford and Northleach, about one mile into Gloucestershire from Burford

40 Sign: 'Fox Inn 1,000 METRES' (actual distance: 3/4 mile) Metric distance sign

[AWAITING ACTION] [AWAITING ACTION]

Westonbirt Arboretum 21/2 miles south-east of Tetbury on A 433

Metric signs showing distance to the Arboretum

[AWAITING ACTION]

GWENT /MONMOUTHSIRE (WALES) (5)

Machen to Rhiwderin road (A 468)

Four warning signs: 'Caution: Lorries turning 100m ahead' and 'Caution: Lorries turning 200m ahead'

Crossed out by anti-metric activist and '100 yds' and '220 yds' substituted

Newport Bus Station

Distance sign including: '15m'

Removed following letter to Newport Council by member of A.R.M. and BWMA member John Colegate

GWYNEDD

Canolfan Tryweryn (Canoe Centre)

Sign to Car Park - '100 metres'

[AWAITING ACTION]

HAMPSHIRE (109)

A 272 / A 32 junction, miles south-west of Alto

9 Hampshire Police Notice: 'Bikesafe: 200 metres'

Amended by anti-metric activists to read : '200 yds'

Andover: A342/A3093 ring road near entrance to Anton Nature Reserve

Two illegal signs, warning of height restriction sign '2.0m' '20 metres' ahead

Sign saying '2.0m' amended by antimetric activists to read: ' 6'6” ', and the '20 metres' sign removed and the Council informed

Eastleigh

Metric distance signs (8?) along a disused railway track now used as a public footpath

Neatly covered over by anti-metric activist

Fritham**

Two metric Forestry Commission signs: '50m' to Fritham Car Park; '500m' to Eyworth Pond Car Park

Amended by anti-metric activists to read '80yds' and '1/4 mile' respectively. Forestry Commission erected new sign; re-amended by anti-metric activists

Gosport

Six metric distance and road width signs

Replaced by the council after representations by anti-metric activists

Matchams (road from Hurn to Ringwood about one mile west of A 338)

Forestry Commission sign to car park: '100m'

Anti-metric activist covered over 'm' with a plate saying 'YDS'

Romsey, A 3057, one mile north of Romsey

Sign: 'Concealed Entrance 50 mtrs' (red metal sign with white lettering

Changed by Council to '100 yds' after letters from Michael Wigley

Seafront, Portsmouth****

* Around 20 metric signs on the seafront and around Portsmouth Old Town with over 200 'fingers' on them, all in units of quarters of a kilometre

3 signs with 30 double-sided 'fingers' on them converted to British distances using metal plates, on 30 October 2001. The Council hacked them off using a hammer and screwdriver two weeks later. Council now erecting dual-unit signing on new signs. Another 5 signs with 50 double-sided distances on converted in July 2002 Press reports available

Seafront, Portsmouth

New dual unit pedestrian signs (miles first)

Eight metric distances covered over with plates

HERTFORDSHIRE

A 414, Hertford to*** Harlow (Eastwick)

Sign to farm: '175 MTS' (on eastbound lane)

Brown-and-white metal plate placed over it with '200 yds'; this was removed by the owner, then painted out again by an anti-metric activist and replaced with 'YDS' (sign since removed completely)

A 4147 (just under M 10 and over M 1)

Metric distance signs for site entrance and lorries turning: 100 & 200 metres and two metric width signs in a lay-by ('Car Park width 2 METRES'

Distance signs - metres painted out and 'yd's substituted; '2 METRES' painted out and ' 6' 5” ' substituted

A 5183, Redbourn

Sign ' 100m ' below 'Give Way' Triangle

Removed by anti-metric activist and Council informed

Ayot St. Lawrence

Sign to Shaw's Corner (National Trust) '200m'

[Sign removed by National Trust Car Park; when it relocated the Car Park nearer the house. Not counted as a 'demetrication']

Cheshunt, Windmill Lane near Cheshunt Station

Road with sign '2.0m'

Amended by anti-metric activists to read ' 6' 6” '

Cheshunt, Windmill Lane

Two car park entrance signs: ' 1.8m ' and ' 1.8 metres '

Amended to read ' 6' 0” ' and ' 5' 11” '

Colney Heath to Welhamgreen Road

Blue-and-white road sign giving distance to weight restriction as '550m' (just over M1)

Changed by anti-metric activist to '600 yds'

Croxley (Watford Road)

Two distance signs to school in metres

Replacement erected by Council in response to letter from UKIP M.E.P. Jeffrey Titford

Dobbs Weir (Pindar Road Level Crossing) (Broxbourne BC)

2 height signs in metric only (1.4m)

Physically altered by anti-metric activists to read ' 4' 6” . Council then erected 4 separate height signs, two in Imperial (' 4' 7” ) and two in metric. The metric ones have now been removed by persons unknown

Elstree Airport

Sign on lane to Elstree Airport: '200 metres’

[AWAITING ATTENTION]

Hertford, A 414 (east Hertford)

6 signs giving distance to contractors site in metres

Covered over in black paint. Signs labelled in yards by contractors shortly afterwards

Hertford to Essendon Road

2 signs to contractors' site entrance '50 metres’ and '100 metres'

Covered over in black paint

Hoddesdon Highwood Road

Sign: ' Hump 35m'

Removed by anti-metric activists

Pishiobury Park East Herts Council

Car Park height sign 2m

[AWAITING ACTION]

Potters Bar - Waggon Road (junction with Cockfosters Road)

Metric distance sign: 'Give Way: 80 m'

Removed by anti-metric activist and Hertsmere Council informed

Sawbridgeworth Pishiobury Park

Car park height sign '2.0M'

Replaced by anti-metric activists with plates saying 6' 6”

St. Albans East Station (bottom of hill)

Cast-iron metric distance sign: 'City centre, Cathedral - 750m'

[AWAITING ACTION].

St. Albans - near roundabout at junction of A 4147 (Bluehouse Hill)/ A 5183 (Redbourn Road)

Sign in metres just off Batchwood road

[AWAITING ACTION]

South Oxhey - Little Oxhey Lane (near Bushey Arches)

Sign to road humps: '200 metres ahead'

Changed by Watford Council, after representations by Neal Webber, to '200 yds'

Stansted Abbots

Metric distances on Lee Valley Park notice

Changed by over-labelling in Imperial

Watford Town Centre

Three green-and-white pedestrian metric signs near the town centre: '1km', '650m', '200m'

Blacked out by anti-metric activist and replaced by signs saying: '3/4', '1/2' and '200 YDS'

Watford Town Centre

Metric-only height sign at Town Centre underpass for cyclists: '2.3m'

Changed to ' 7' 6” '

Watford - Cassiobury Park

Double-sided fingerpost signs: 'Emergency phone 224 metres' and 'Emergency 'phone 70 metres'

Changed by anti-metric activists to read: 'Emergency 'phone 250 yds' [OTHER SIGN AWAITING ACTION]

Weathampstead to Hatfield Road (B 653)

Sign before roundabout: 'Give Way 75m.'

Removed and Council notified

Wharf Road, Wormley, Broxbourne

Dual height sign at level crossing: ' 16'6” ' and '5.0m'

'5.0m' covered over by anti-metric activists

Wheathampsted to Hatfield Road (B 653)

Signs to car park near Brockley Hall: '2m'

Changed to ' 6'6” ', and two extra ' 6' 6” ' signs added on to the car park barrier

Welwyn Garden City Howlands Road

Five signs giving distance to 'Caution. Site Entrance. Lorries Turning: 100M, or 50M'

Signs amended to read in yards and re-positioned. Another illegal metric 200M, or sign in the yard removed. The firm (Subterra) informed in writing

Wood End, East Herts

Distance signs: 'Barrier ahead: 920 metres’ and 'Barrier ahead 240 metres'

Removed by anti-metric activists after Council failed to deal with their sign; Council informed

'Woodside', S.E. Herts: Baas lane near Cheshunt

2 footpath signs only in kilometres (double-sided)

Removed by anti-metric activists; Herts C.C. informed

ISLE OF WIGHT (3)

Botanical Gardens, on Ventnor/St. Lawrence Road, Ventnor

Two metric distance signs: '500m'

Replaced by the Council with two signs stating '550 yards', after representations by local activist DG

Smugglers Inn, Ventnor

Metric distance sign

Replaced by the Council after representations by local activist DG

KENT (72)

Harrietsham

6 dual bridge height signs (2 separate locations)

Metric heights whited out by anti metric activist

Dover - cliffs on west side (country park - Samphire Ho!)

 Metric distances on footpath signs and benches

[AWAITING ACTION]

Folkestone

Distance to toilets on promenade in metric

on [AWAITING ACTION]

Hurst Green

Private metric distance sign

Converted permanently to 'yds' following two 'corrections' by anti-metric activists

Maidstone (Square Hill Road)

Four distance signs to weak bridge '100m'

Covered over by anti-metric activist in black paint. Council informed and admit 'error'

Maidstone (Langley, just east of Park Wood, Maidstone, on A274 heading east

Distance sign: '875m'

[AWAITING ACTION]

Staplehurst, A 229

Sign: 'Stapleford Manor 450 metres' to BUPA Hospital (near Total filling station)

[AWAITING ACTION]

Staplehurst, at Cranbrook Common (Junction of A 229 / A 2

Sign: 'Bumbles Plant Centre 200m' 62)

[AWAITING ACTION]

Tenterden area

57 metric distance signs, '100 metres' etc., erected by Transco Pipe lines warning of approach to pipeline

50 signs removed and the illegal distances painted out before being returned to Transco; the other 7 painted over. Police charged the anti-metric activist involved with theft and criminal damage, found guilty on 22 May 2002; case subject to appeal: Press reports available

Tenterden, High Street

2 signs to car park in metric  distance & heights only

Covered with black aerosol

Tunbridge Wells

Metric distance sign to Crescent Road Car Park

Removed after letter to Council from Rosemary Wickendon

Whitstable, Abbey Homes Development

Sign to Site Entrance: '200 metres'

Amended by anti-metric activist to read: '250 yards'

LANCASHIRE (38)

M 62, east of Oldham

Elevation sign: '372 metres’ at highest point of M62

[AWAITING ACTION]

Accrington

Four signs warning of weak bridge ahead ' 30 m '

Amended into 'yds' by anti-metric activists

Accrington

Car park height sign ' 2.0m '

: Amended to read ' 6' 6” ' by antimetric activists

Atherton, near Wigan A 557

Several dozen, maybe 100-plus, metric distance signs erected by Transco around their pipeline

One particular sign replaced after letter from UKIP M.E.P. Jeffrey Titford. We do not know what happened to the others (see Kent Tenterden area - above

Blackpool Promenade

Finger post signs giving distances such as '6400 M' along the promenade in north Blackpool

Six amended so far by anti-metric activists

Blackpool Promenade

Two signs to emergency telephones in metres (100 and 200 metres)

Amended into yards by anti-metric activists

Blackpool - Car Park Height

Dual-marked car park height sign stating: '2M, 8 CM' in metric

Metric height blacked out by anti-metric activists

Newton-le-Willows, St. Helens

Newton Nature trail has metric-only distances

20 metric distances on 7 metric signs replaced by plates showing Imperial distances

Newton-le-Willows (Mesnes Park area)

Two metric-only bridge height signs ('3.2m')

Removed by anti-metric activists

Widnes

Direction sign in metres

Amended by Council after letter from anti-metric campaigner

LANCASHIRE/

YORKSHIRE BORDER (2)

M 62 summit: eastbound and westbound carriageways

Large hoarding saying: “Highest motorway in England: 372m (1221 feet)”

Anti-metric activists painted out the '372m'

LEICESTERSHIRE (12)

Loughborough - Old Central Railway Station

Distance to turning circle: '20 metres'

[AWAITING ACTION]

Murphys

Temporary road signs in metric distances warning of road works ahead (about 12)

Replaced by Murphys with signs in imperial as a result of representations by Jamie Bye

LINCOLNSHIRE (39)

A15 North Lincolnshire Near Barton-on-Humber

Two signs warning of slippery roads for '700m'

Removed by anti-metric activists Aug-05

Gainsborough

Two dual bridge height signs

Metric heights blacked out by Anti-metric activists

Grantham, Lincolnshire (North Kesteven District Council)

Three dual car park height signs in metres with feet and inches in brackets

Amended by anti-metric activists

Grantham, Lincolnshire

White on blue signs: height limit ' 3.9m ' (dual) and ' 3.6m '

Metric deleted and ' 3.6m ' replaced by ' 12' 0” '

Great Limber, North Lincolnshire

Highway sign: Weight restriction ahead '200m’

Changed by anti-metric activists to read '200 yds'

Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire

Around 20 metric footpath signs erected by North Lincolnshire Council

N. Lincs Council forced to replace them by signs in Imperial by local anti-metric campaigner Pat Wells (Press reports available: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph) [BUT SOME METRIC SIGNS REMAIN AWAITING ACTION]. The Council screwed on black-and-white plates in yards to cover over the previous metric distances

Mablethorpe Sea Front (East Lindsey District Council)

Three large signs to Council car parks: '350M', '750M', '600M'

Changed by anti-metric activists to read: 'Ľm', '˝m', '600 yds'

Scunthorpe - Normanby Road near Orb Lane

Metric distance sign: '200m' (road traffic sign)

Removed after representations by anti-metric campaigner Pat Wells

Sleaford (Holdingham), Lincoln Road

Temporary sign to roadworks: '100 mtr'

Removed by anti-metric activists

Spalding, Market Square (Holland Square)

Metric pedestrian signs in the market square reported to ARM; Toilets '80 metres' and '150 metres' (four distances)

Converted to read '100 yds' and '150 yds' by anti-metric activists

LONDON

A 2, east of Peckham

Sign to college entrance, white on blue, westbound south side of A2 at road junction: '105 metres

[AWAITING ACTION]

A 13 East India Dock Road/Newham Way LB Tower Hamlets

Metric distance sign to car park

Distance plate replaced by the Council after letter from UKIP M.E.P. Jeffrey Titford

Albany Road/Camberwell Road Junction LB Southwark

'Southwark Disablement Re Centre, '200m' (doublesided)

moved by anti-metric activists and Southwark Council informed

Amhurst Road signs, Stoke Newington LB Hackney

First-ever traffic sign in kilometres showing distances in km to three local destinations reported in 'Daily Mail’

Painted over by anti-metric activists on sae day as press report and changed to miles; Council then amended the sign itself to miles

Barnet - Cat Hill LB Barnet

2 Traffic sign: Toilets '150m' and '100m'

Replaced with signs saying '150 yds' and '150 yds' after representations by UKIP/BWMA member Eddie Worster and BWMA member Steve Fenn

Barnet - High Road LB Barnet

Metric pedestrian sign

Changed to Imperial following a letter from BWMA member Steve Fenn

Blackheath Village LB Lewisham

4 double-sided signs to automatic toilet in metres

All now painted over and black card used to display distances in yards

Camden LB Camden

Metric distance signs (2?)

Replaced in Imperial by Council after a letter from Jack Scullard

Camden LB Camden

Sign: 'P - 200m', Camden High Street

[AWAITING ACTION]

Camden Road LB Camden

Distance to road width: '100 metres' (blue-and-white sign)

Removed by anti-metric activists and Council informed

Canary Wharf / Isle of Dogs, LB Tower Hamlets

Four height signs - all saying '2.15 m'

[AWAITING ACTION]

Chicheley Street off York Street , LB Lambeth

Entrance to Car Park sign: 2.18 M, plus three blue-and-white metric distance signs to local 'chippie'

Car Park sign amended by anti-metric activists to read ' 7' 2” '; other signs removed

Chingford Park LB Waltham Forest

Two double-side wooden posts in Chingford High Road: 'Chingford Park 800m'

Amended by anti-metric activists to read: '1/2 mile'

City Road/Old Street are LB Islington

a 57 signs giving distances to road humps in metres

Removed in a series of raids by antimetric activists. Returned to Islington Council after illegal metric distances had been painted out. No action taken by the Council

Croydon: Croham Park, Hurst near Croydon LB Croydon

Metric footpath sign at entrance to park

[AWAITING ACTION]

Croydon LB Croydon

Pedestrian sign to Library: '200 metres'

Changed by the Council, by overlabelling in yards, after letter from John Gardner of BWMA

Croydon: Tamworth Street LB Croydon

Sign at railway giving height and length of permitted vehicles in metric

Reported to LB Croydon by John Gardner of BWMA [AWAITING ACTION]

Dalston LB Hackney

Sign Car Park Ahead '350m'

Over-plated by sign saying '400 yds' by anti-metric activists

Deptford High Street LB Lewisham

4 double-sided signs to Disabled Toilets: '500m’, 4'00m', '380m',

Changed by anti-metric activists to 3 x ' 1/4m' and '250 yds' '225m'

Edmonton, The Angel LB Enfield

2 'fingerpost' signs with 8 double-sided 'fingers’ giving 15 separate metric distances

Replaced with plates in Imperial units by anti-metric activists (30 plates needed) Press reports available

Essex Road, LB Islington

Sign to waste disposals unit: '200 METRES’

Sign amended by anti-metric activists to read '200 yds'

Exhibition Road, near Hyde Park and the Museums LB Kensington & Chelsea

Sign on railings: ‘Museums 150 metres’

Changed by anti-metric activists to '165 yards'

Greenway footpath from Bow to Stratford LB Newham

Green-and-yellow foot- path signs giving distances in metres and kilometres

Two amended to yards by antimetric activists (more amendments planned)

Greenwich, Royal Park

Many distances in the Royal Park given in metres

[AWAITING ACTION] in

Hackney

Dual blue-and-white signs giving heights in metres

Four amended by painting out '4.0m' and '4.2m' at Dalston

Hallam Street LB Westminster

Sign to 'Give Way' 30 metres

Removed and Council informed. Council have replaced it, and didn't want their sign back

Harold Wood, St. Neots Road, LB Havering

4 metric distance signs

Converted to yards by the Council after letters from Warwick Cairns

Heathrow Airport Approach Road LB Hillingdon

Distance sign to traffic lights: '400m'

Covered over with black aerosol paint

Hither Green; Manor Road & Longhurst Road areas LB Lewisham

Seven blue-and-white road width restriction signs and four other road width signs

Amended into British distances by anti-metric activists

Hither Green; Manor Road, Longhurst Road areas the above raid and a robust letter LB Lewisham

(Estimated numbers): 9 blue-and-white road width signs and approx. 20 distance signs to road humps in metres

Amended by the Council following from ARM (10.12.01); all now in yards, feet and inches

Hornchurch (Osborne Road)

4 signs giving road width and distances in metric only

Altered (promptly) by LB Havering after letter by local activist Greta Smith

Hornchurch (Ravenscourt Grove)

4 signs giving road width and distances in metric only

Altered (promptly) by LB Havering after letters by local activists Greta Smith and Richard Clements

House of Commons* LB Westminster

2 brass plaques giving 5 distances to parts of the Houses of Parliament in metric units only

Anti-metric activists erect 5 metal plates to cover over the metric distances

Hyde Park, LB Westminster

Signs to toilets all in metric units (about 20 double-sided fingers, plus other signs to exits all in metric)

So far, four sets of signs changed: '300m' changed to '300 yds', '350m' changed to '1/4', '200m' to '250 yds' (7 distances) plus three signs to exits demetricated

Jodrell Road/Cadogan Terrace/Wick Lane LB Tower Hamlets

4 metric-only bridge height signs

Removed by anti-metric activists and Council informed

Kentish Town Road/ Highgate Road (close Kentish Town Tube Station) LB Camden

Two signs giving directions to local recycling centre and vehicle pound in metres (200 & 300 respectively)

Removed and Council notified cling

Kenworthy Road A 102 / Homerton Road B 112, LB Hackney

Dual metric/British bridge height signs

Metric heights whited out with white paint

Kings Cross area, LB Camden

7 signs giving metric distances to Thameslink Station (blue and white)

Removed in two raids by anti-metric activists

Lewisham Hill

Sign to traffic lights: '120m' at foot of Lewisham Hill

Removed by anti-metric activists

Lewisham: SE4 and SE14 areas: Bexhill Road, Wickham Road, Geoffrey Road, Brockley Cross, Drakefell Road, Pepys Road, Kitto Road, Arbuthnot Road, Waller Road, Erlanger Road, Brockley Station: LB Lewsisham

Approx. 20 metric signs, either to width restrictions or to road humps, plus width restriction signs saying: '2.13m' (some of them blue-and-white)

16 signs put back into Imperial by ] anti-metric activists, in Manor Avenue, Geoffrey Road, Drakefell Road and Kitto Road - so far [A FEW AWAITING ACTION]

Lewisham Hospital

Height sign at entrance in only in metres

Amended to feet and inches by antimetric activists

London Zoo

Four (green) signs to London Zoo Car Park, three saying '300 metres’ and one saying '100 metres’, and one red-and-white sign showing entrance ahead '200 metres

Amended by anti-metric activists into English distances; 1/4 mile, 350 yds (x 2), 150 yds and 200 yds respectively '

Masons Hill, Bromley LB Bromley

3 blue-and-white traffic signs giving distances to weak bridge in metres

Painted out by anti-metric activists in white with black card used to give distances in yards

Mawneys, (Birch Road/ Cross Road/White Hart Lane LB Havering

7 signs giving road widths and distances only in metres only

Altered (promptly) by LB Havering after letter by local activist Richard Clements

Mount Pleasant

Metric height sign '2.70m’

[AWAITING ACTION]

Oxford Street LB Westminster

Signs to McDonalds in white and red McDonalds - 50 metres’

[AWAITING ACTION]

Parkland Walk LB Haringey

17 distances on 4 signs along Parkland Walk (old Finsbury Park to Highgate railway line

Amended 9 Sep 2005 by anti-metric activists

Parliament Hill, LB Camden

2 signs to Information Centre, 300m

Changed by anti-metric activists to read '300 YDS'

Picketts Lock Road LB Enfield

Blue-and-white sign giving a height as 2.1m (7'0”)

Metric height and brackets removed by anti-metric activist

Pratt Street, Camden LB Camden

Sign to Car Park, '20m'

Removed by anti-metric activist; Council informed

South Circular Road, A 205, Brownhill Road just before Stainton Road, SE6 LB Lewisham

'Humps for 520m' (one westbound, one eastbound)

Reported by BWMA member Sam Malin; later removed by anti-metric activist and Lewisham Council informed

Spur Way, off Alfred's Way/Jenkins Lane just off A 13 in Barking LB Newham or Barking Dagenham?

Metric only bridge height sign: '5.0m'

Reported by BWMA member Sam Malin, but Council took no action; amended by anti-metric activist to read: ' 16' 5” '

Stamford Hill, South Tottenham LB Havering

Sign warning of traffic lights ahead '115m'

Removed and local Council notified

Stratford/West Ham/ Beckton area LB Newham

About 40-50 signs in metric along the 'Greenway' and neighbouring footpaths

One amended by anti-metric activist. The others AWAITING ACTION

Thames Path near Southwark Bridge

Two signs near barrier advising walkers of an alternative route in 350 metres

Metal plates and adhesive reflective white lettering used to replace the distance with sign showing '380 yards'

Tollington Way, Holloway LB Islington

Four signs in dual metric/Imperial - width restriction 7'0” and 2.13m

Metric widths blacked out by anti metric activists 9 Sep 2005

Tower of London* City

Metric sign to the Entrance to the Tower: '250m'

Amended by affixing a '275 yds' sign. Tower of London staff removed the '275 plate' after a telephone call about it from the 'Daily Mail'. Reported in the 'Peterborough' column of the 'Daily Mail' on 29 April 2003 (p. 15)

Tower Hamlets Distance Signs to Speed Humps LB Tower Hamlets

Metric distances to speed humps

Altered by Council after letter from Frederick Rodriguez ('Yardstick' 16)

Upper Thames Street (junction with High Timber Street and Stew Lane) City

Sign: 'Humps in 20 metres'

Removed by anti-metric activists and Council notified

Tower of London (City of London)

Sign to Ticket Office: '250m'

[AWAITING ACTION]

Vauxhall/Lambeth** LB Lambeth

9 fingerpost signs with 34 double-sided 'fingers’ on them, all in metric

All 34 'fingers' now covered over by anti-metric activists (i.e. 74 distances) and replaced with plates showing British distances. Amended by LB Lambeth; re-amend by antimetric activists

Wandsworth, A 217

Dual height sign, '4.3m' and ' 14' 0” '

'4.3m' covered over by anti-metric

Waterloo Station area LB Lambeth

Three bridge height signs, all saying '2.9m'

Amended by anti-metric activists to read: '9' 6”

MANCHESTER AND STOCKPORT METROPOLITAN BOROUGH (10)

Lightbowne Road area, Moston, Manchester

9 distance signs to road humps in metres

8 removed by anti-metric activists and returned to Manchester City Council. Press Reports available. One other similar sign was spotted by a Mr M Reaper who took up the matter with Manchester City Council and got a promise that the sign would be changed

Middleton, Manchester

Sign giving distance to roadworks ahead in metres

Painted over by anti-metric activists and replaced with sign in yards

Stockport - Brabyns Road, next to Midland Hotel, Marple Bridge

'Caution - Drive Carefully Car Park exit 45 metres'

Reported by Alan Coates; eventually covered over by the Council

MERSEYSIDE

Birkenhead - Hamilton area

Pedestrian signs in Hamilton area; cast-iron

[AWAITING ACTION]

NORFOLK (12)

A 1065 Hempton

Signs to Household Waste Disposal site: '

Removed by Norfolk County Council 400 metres' after letter from ARM

Felbrigg House near Cromer

Signs to National Trust: '300m' (two)

Amended by anti-metric activists to read: '350 yds'

Norwich, near Cathedral/ Tomb Lane

Signs to Elm Hill: '300 metres' and to Toilets: '120 metres'

Reported by Mike Davies of Norfolk CBI [AWAITING ACTION]

Sheringham Park** (National Trust)

Signs to car park: '200 metres' and '100 metres'

One amended to read '200 yds'; the other only to 'yds' as the activist was interrupted. Update: the NT had replaced our '200 yds' simply with an arrow pointing in the right direction. The 'yds' had been removed, so an anti-metric activist affixed lettering saying '1/4 mile'

Swanton Morley (near Dereham)

Five signs giving dual speed limits for tanks: '20 mph = 32 km/h

'=32 km/h' neatly blacked out by anti-metric activist on all five signs '

A 1101, Welney

Four dual river height signs - in feet up to 8 feet high, and in up to 2.5m high

Metric half of the signs blacked out by anti-metric activists metric

West of East Dereham (Swaffham Heath) (A 1122)

Two signs to Picnic Site: '500 metres'

Covered over by anti-metric activist

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (35)

A 43 at Little Oakley

Two triangular signs: '3.9m' - below signs saying ' 13' 0”

Removed by anti-metric activists '

A 421 - close to Junction 13 on M1

Metric distance sign

Amended by anti-metric activist

Brixworth area

Metric distance sign

Changed into Imperial after letter from Stephen Tamblin

Byfield Parish Council

Letter in 'The Times', 1 May 2002 from Mr R. Mallace, 3 Hinton House Farm Cottages, Byfield, DAVENTRY, Northants, NN11 3QT: “Our Parish Council wished to put up a sign indicating a distance of 50m to a car park. We have been informed by the Highways Department of the County Council that metric distances are illegal: the distances must be given in yards”

Denford

Signs to 'Cock Inn' on canal bridge giving distances as '200m’

Amended by anti-metric activists to read: '300 yds'

Geddington

Sign on southern end to the village: ' 2.1m’ road width in ' 400m '

Amended by anti-metric activists to read: ' 6' 6” in '1/4 mile'

Great Oakley

Dual height signs for railway bridges

Metric distances blacked out by antimetric activists (two blacked out so far)

Greens Norton At A 5 / A 43 roundabout near Filling Station

Notice to 'Garden Centre' in metres

[AWAITING ACTION]

Northampton Town

18 signs giving distances to road humps in metres

Removed by anti-metric activists from UKIP, dumped a few miles away in the undergrowth, reported to the local papers and then to the local Council. Press reports available

Northampton Town

Sign: '20 metres' outside Northampton Library

[AWAITING ACTION]

River Nene

Most locks have signs giving speed limit as '11.2 kph'

5 signs professionally amended to read '7mph' in Wellingborough area by anti-metric activists (especially around Islip and Thrapston) and 8 signs amended just east of Peterborough (Cambs)

Thrapston

Two signs in Co-op Store Car Park: '2 METRES’

Amended by anti-metric activists to read: '6' 6”

Weedon; A 45 Trunk Road (Highways Agency) Northamptonshire (Kidlington turn-off) and Kislingbury Road, Rothersthorpe

Two signs giving metric distances

Converted to yards after letters written by local anti-metric activists

NORTHERN IRELAND

County Fermanagh A 32

Sign: 'Road Works Ahead 800m' on Enniskillen to Ballinamallard road (A32)

[AWAITING ACTION]

County Fermanagh: Castle Archdale Forest

Several metric footpath signs on forest tracks

[AWAITING ACTION]

Londonderry