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It's not really a 'modern' sign, but in my home town, near the local Tesco, we still have the 'London 49 miles' 'sign' written on a stone block.
Still quite a few 'old style' signs in the London area as I recall. The following website details a number of them, some of which (the first in the list at both the Aldwych and Southwark) I've actually passed in the street myself.
www.roads.org.uk/photo/old-signs
The one is Harrow Weald is quite common that part of North London, having seen them many times when driving / been driven in my parents cars over the decades.
The even older style ones further down are, as you say, a regular sight in rural areas, and I've passed the one on the B1039 in Essex many times over the last few years when on cycle rides.
Sadly some wooden ones get broken, because the part of the sign pointing to the side road is often poking out into the road and gets taken out by passing vehicles like vans/lorries and the ever growing-in-size farm vehicles using these narrow roads.
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