Stupid question about speed limits

[Major_Grooves]

When the lamp posts are a certain distance apart, you know the speed limits is 30mph, unless otherwise told by sign posts.

What about where there are no speed limit signs and no lamp posts, such as if you leave a 30mph area?

I was thinking this as I was riding along Spaniard's Road through Hampstead Heath last night. It goes from what you can assume is a 30mph due to the lamp posts, then into a road through the park where there are no posts, or speed limits signs. 30mph seems stupidly slow there as there is nothing but you and the traffic ahead.

Obviously it's not NSL but I went 40mph anyhow (I usually stick to 30mph limits).

Probably a stupid question...

Probably somewhere in the Highway code...
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[Davo]

[Major_Grooves]

That's what I thought, but you know what it's like when you're going along thinking "this is stupidly slow" so you speed up a bit.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

A repeater sign is required at regular intervals, except in 30 limits with street lighting where it is not legal to install repeater signs.

There is no formal distance to determine what constitute regular repeater signs, but if you can show that they are not regular then in the abscence of any other signs it is probably, legally, a NSL road.

This might give you some more info:-

https://www.abd.org.uk/speed_limit_signs.htm

All the best

Keith
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[headlamp]

I know the road well. (Was up there earlier today). It's 30mph. You can assume that every road in London is 30mph, unless the sign says otherwise.

[Major_Grooves]