Road signs meant for Hilton and Egginton read "Hillton" and "Egerton." Same misspelling as last year. Hillton is a Swiss production company.

Folks, here's an adventure in navigation from Derbyshire, England. Temporary road signs near the A38 were supposed to point drivers to the villages of Hilton and Egginton, BBC News reports. Instead they read "Egerton" and "Hillton." Egerton is a real place, about 70 miles away in the north part of Bolton. As for Hillton, the BBC says there don't appear to be any English locations by that name, though it is the name of a production company in Zurich, Switzerland. So follow the signs and you might end up in the wrong village, or the wrong country. Now the landing. District councillor Grahame Andrew says it's the second time National Highways has made the error; it happened in October 2025 too, and he says he never got a reply when he reported it. Standing beside one sign, he pointed out it sends you left for Hilton when you're already in Hilton and the rest of the village is to the right. "Apart from all those issues, it's fine," he joked. He also called the agency "utterly incompetent," and a fellow councillor wanted the signs changed "but not at the taxpayer's expense, especially as it's the second time this has happened." To its credit, National Highways said, "We apologise for the spelling error and have moved swiftly to correct the signage," with new signs going up that night. The bridge work there is scheduled to last 18 months. Moral of the story, folks: spell-check is free. Doing the same job twice isn't.