A Sampford Moor resident has branded the village's signposts as 'an embarrassment' and a 'disgrace' after some have been left to rust and degrade.

Resident Rosemarie Mills says recent visitors were 'astonished' by the condition of the signposts, and said slammed them as a 'disgrace.'

Ms Mills said: "The sign posts I'm Sampford Moor are embarrassing. What kind of impression do we portray by these examples? We recently had visitors who had driven driven to Sampford Moor and they were astonished at the state of our signposts.  

"Shouldn’t  our council rates cover such a basic need as legible signposts? Sampford Moor is a great little community and some locals have taken it upon themselves to wash and clean the existing signposts, but given the current state of them it would be impossible to rejuvenate them with a wash."

Ms Mills added some of the signs were so bad, that without the use of a navigational aid, it would be near impossible to find your way around the area:

"If you were a visitor, travelling through Sampford Moor without Sat Nav, how would you know where you were going?

"The council seem to spend endless monies and cause a lot of inconvenience filling in potholes, which reappear within a couple of months because of poor repair, surely they can spare a few quid to maintain our signposts.  They are a disgrace.

 "So please just give us a sign."

The white so-called finger signs were officially slated for abolishment in the 1960s by the central government. But they have lived on in parts of the country thanks to funding by parish councils and communities who have taken it upon themselves to set money aside to preserve the traditional signage.

Sampford Arundel parish council was approached for comment but could not be reached.