Street signs

We hired a car to drive around East Anglia a bit yesteday. It was a lot of fun but we got lost 3 times and mostly because of the lack of street signs! It seems like the english are not big fans of labelling their streets and we often found ourselves at an intersection with no idea what road we were on or what the other road was. Not sure why the street signs seem to be so scarce here in the UK but I would recommend getting a GPS map thing if you plan to do any serious driving.