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