Disbelief over misspelt Cotswold town’s ‘Ceep Klear’ road marking

Road workers fixing a Cotswold street misspelt a Keep Clear road marking and wrote “Ceep Klear” when repainting it instead. The glaring error on a repatched part of Watermoor Road in Cirencester got people wondering if it was an honest mistake by contractors or whether they were “having a bit of a laugh”.

A spokesperson for Wales & West Utilities, which carried out the work, said: “We have recently completed our work in the Watermoor Road area of Cirencester to upgrade the gas network. This work was essential to keep the gas flowing to local homes and businesses today, and to make sure the gas network is fit for the future.

“With the work now complete, contractors working on our behalf have been to the site to reinstate the road surface. Unfortunately, when replacing the road markings they have misspelt the wording on the tarmac. As soon as we were made aware, we contacted the contractors to request that they return to the site and rectify this as quickly as possible. The team have now replaced the markings with the full and correct spelling.”

The road marking error was fixed last night This is an amended version of an earlier article after it became clear that the work was carried out by Wales & West Utilities.