{"id":622194,"date":"2026-06-05T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622194\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:14:09","slug":"why-squares-have-been-painted-on-essex-norfolk-and-suffolk-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622194\/","title":{"rendered":"Why squares have been painted on Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mystery of why sets of peculiar road markings have appeared on roads in towns and villages across the region has been solved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People started asking questions this week after being baffled by the sudden emergence of white squares painted on roads in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The intriguing symbols, in a Battenberg-like pattern, were reported in Suffolk at Raydon, near Hadleigh, and Gislingham, near Eye; in Essex at Ingatestone, near Brentwood, and Margaretting, near Chelmsford; and near Norwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Grid has confirmed they are related to mobile mapping surveys being carried out to collect data as part of its Norwich to Tilbury pylon scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mystery of why sets of peculiar road markings have appeared on roads in towns and villages across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}