I think you're more likely to get things like that at junctions. 95 yards here.
Unnecessarily Accurate Distances on Signs
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Must be a very small place as 1/4 furlong is only 55 yards, otherwise why is this accurace needed. I checked Wikipedia which stated that it had a population of about 4600.
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That the population you found amounts to a figure as large as that must mean that it represent the total for the whole (Welsh local government) unit of Cilybebyll Community. Cilybebyll itself is no more than a handful of houses and a few farms. Having walked this road a few times myself (minus pedometer, let alone new-fangled satellite technology!), I suspect that the figure posted may well represent the exact distance, to the nearest quarter-furlong (10 rods), from this junction (in Rhos) to Cilybebyll parish church door!
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https://goo.gl/maps/QU8kLq2oXb5pa24s6
"for next 492 yards"
(Not sure about the need for the word 'next', either!)
"for next 492 yards"
(Not sure about the need for the word 'next', either!)
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I've never seen that shade of blue on a road sign before!
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Looks like a private road to me.
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There is currently an advert for a fast food chain near me saying "219 metres away" - suspiciously specific
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Coming home today through the roadworks on Boundary Roundabout in Bournemouth/Poole, i spotted a sign informing road users of a "Temporary Bus Stop 103m"
The 3m make all the difference...
The 3m make all the difference...
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103 miles!
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Re: Unnecessarily Accurate Distances on Signs
You'd hope so, but as metres are not a valid unit of measurement on UK road signs – except for height restrictions – they've messed up in more ways than one! The irony is that if they had correctly marked it as 110yds, it wouldn't like quite so ridiculous (although it still should be 100yds for simplicity).
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Countdown markers on motorways are actually 300, 200, 100 meters, even though the Highway Code says yards.
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Hump 49 yds.
As an aside, when I did the late shifts at Sainsbury's years ago I would often do the "This store is closing in X minutes" tannoy - and I would be exact. Not to the second, but to the minute. It used to annoy one of the supervisors who would tell me to say "5 minutes" even if it was 4.
As an aside, when I did the late shifts at Sainsbury's years ago I would often do the "This store is closing in X minutes" tannoy - and I would be exact. Not to the second, but to the minute. It used to annoy one of the supervisors who would tell me to say "5 minutes" even if it was 4.
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No services on M1. Undeniably true, but there's only a few hundred yards of M1 to go as you can already see the A1 approaching from the left and joining in the distance, and if you look to the right at the southbound carriageway we're next to the A1/M1 diverge so have already reached the end of the M1.
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Drove passed this 599 yards sign today. Unusual to see yards rather than yds on a supplementary plate. Turn around and there is a NSL to 20 change as well.
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Yes, when I saw this thread I thought of the series of signs like this on the A5 past Weston Park, which pretty much all have quite random measurements on them. Unfortunately a lot of them have been blurred by Google's text filter.Bfivethousand wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2017 20:53 Overtaking prohibitions always seemed to bring out extreme precision amongst sign designers of yesteryear!
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OK so this a weight not a distance.
This end of the car park has a three tonne weight limit.
The other end has not two tonnes, nor even 1.5 tonnes but 1,524kg. I suppose there are some vehicles for whom the extra 24kg might make a vital difference but is enforcement really that precise anyway?
This end of the car park has a three tonne weight limit.
The other end has not two tonnes, nor even 1.5 tonnes but 1,524kg. I suppose there are some vehicles for whom the extra 24kg might make a vital difference but is enforcement really that precise anyway?
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The legal traffic regulation order will specify 30 hundredweight.
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Well we couldn't just put "½ mile" - that would be an exaggeration!
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