The Edington Community Speed Watch was established in May 2010 after a number of complaints from villagers about speeding through our village. A group of volunteers were trained by the police, with the speed device itself being shared by four villages – Edington, Bratton, Heywood and Westbury.

The object of the Speed Watch is to educate drivers to think about their speed and the prevailing speed restrictions and road conditions. The Speed Watch volunteers have no power to penalise motorists in any way, but we do record the registration details of any speeding motorists so that the police can contact them by letter, initially, to remind them of the purpose behind it. Should the police join us on speed watch, as they do occasionally, they do have the power to stop speeding motorists and issue fixed penalty notices on the spot if it seems appropriate.

This is all about making Edington a safer place to live in. The issue in Edington is the lack of pavements and the numbers of young families/horse riders/walkers etc who have to risk their safety from speeding drivers.