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There's a great road sign over the hill from us. But not because of the destinations, because of the measurements. It's the only road sign I've seen that has distance in miles and furlongs.

Someone else found it beautiful too - they took a brilliant picture.
So did you have a ham sandwich from the Sandwich Shop in Sandwich?
The Royal Mail has a Sandwich Delivery Office, which I visited many moons ago just for the photo op.

dg writes: see 2017 post.
I thought deal.sandwich.worth sounded like a What Three Words location - so I checked. It is, but sadly it's in Tampico, Mexico - not a direct reference to the square where the sign is.
Those are lovely country lanes.

There used to be another Ham Sandwich sign on the other side of the main road, but I was told that the council gave up replacing it after the relevant finger was repeatedly stolen as a jolly jape. Somehow the one you pictured escaped this fate, perhaps because it is slightly more difficult to find.
Whilst not in the "Ham, Sandwich" league, not least as it was an unremarkable post-Worboys blue-edged rectangular affair, my most pleasing sign was in Devon - detailing "Inner Hope" and "Outer Hope". Sadly, there was no "Abandon Hope" sign on leaving the locality...
Looks like a very nice day out, even without the "Instagram" photo op!
Such a shame about the former church. It is a Grade II* listed building, which puts it in the top decile of listed buildings. As English Heritage says, "Reputedly Saxon structure, with C13 fenestration, restored 1879-1880 by Joseph Clarke". An interior photo here.
What a fun post! I'm feeling rather hungry now.
Well done for even managing to get to East Kent with all the brexit chaos.

From the news story about the church, I'd want to remain anonymous too if I'd said something as inane as "One local woman, who did not want to be named, said:"It's very sad. That building has been there for years, certainly in the 30 years I've been here." " about a centuries old building
I used to work in the Branch Library at Ham on Ham Street near Richmond, Surrey. We did get letters and parcels delivered to us that should have gone to Ham, Kent.
I remember visiting Sandwich for the first time a few years ago and was immensely pleased whilst wandering the streets to have to stand aside to let a lady carrying a huge platter of sandwiches go past.
I visited Betteshanger in 1971 on a school railway club trip to ride the steam engines at the colliery. We came across a Ham Sandwich sign and I still have a photo.. The distances given were Ham 1.5 and Sandwich 4. And the sign was closer to a roadway- all suggesting there was another location once upon a time .










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