HC Deb 24 June 1907 vol 176 cc866-7
MR. MARNHAM (Surrey, Chertsey)

To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can state the number of signposts denoting dangerous corners, cross roads, and precipitous places, set up by each of the county councils in England and Wales, under Section 10 (2) of The Motor Car Act, 1903.

(Answered by Mr. John Burns) The numbers are shown in the following table. The total of them is 9,025 —

County Council. Number of Signposts.
England:
Bedfordshire 222
Berkshire 490
Buckinghamshire 60
Cambridgeshire 68
Isle of Ely 17
Cheshire 425
Cornwall None
Cumberland 53 *
Derbyshire None†
Devonshire None
Dorsetshire None
Durham 217
Essex 510
Gloucestershire 1 ‡
Herefordshire 80
Hertfordshire 218
Huntingdonshire 12
Isle of Wight 18 §
Kent 675
Lancashire 420
Leicestershire 61
Lincolnshire Holland) None
Lincolnshire (Kesteven) 143
Lincolnshire (Lindsay) 92
London 3
Middlesex 985
*The number is increasing every month. † The county council have taken over many cyclist notices. ‡ lamp on Chepstow Bridge. §The county council have also taken over the signposts belonging to the Cyclists Tourning club and the national Cyclists Union. ║Thirty-three will shortly be erected.
County Council. Number of Signposts.
England —continued:
Monmouthshire None
Norfolk None
Northamptonshire 104
Northumberland 355
Nottinghamshire 23
Oxfordshire 48
Peterborough (Soke of) 27
Eutlandshire 8
Salop 165
Somersetshire None§
Southampton 29
Staffordshire None
Suffolk (East) 48
Suffolk (West) None
Surrey 420
Sussex (East) 198
Sussex (West) 145
Warwickshire 50
Westmorland 308
Wiltshire None¶
Worcestershire 102
Yorkshire (East Riding) 142
Yorkshire (North Riding) 314
Yorkshire (West Riding) 630**
Wales:
Anglesey 9
Breconshire 6
Cardiganshire 20
Carmarthenshire None
Carnarvonshire 52
Denbighshire 122
Flintshire 80††
Glamorganshire 595
Merionethshire 116
Montgomeryshire 19‡‡
Pembrokeshire None §§
Radnorshire - 120