A Crewe Sunday league football referee has marked a Royal Cypher of Queen Elizabeth II on a local field - in tribute to Her Majesty's death.

Des Evans has marked out 'EIIR' onto the turf at Barony Park in Nantwich.

The referee regularly officiates on the park in the Crewe Regional Sunday Football League matches.

He also paints all the white lines on the four football pitches on the park. 

Local referee, Des Evans, has marked out 'EIIR' onto the turf at Barony Park in Nantwich (Jonathan White).

Mr Evans has now expertly marked out and painted the initials 'ER' with 'II' in-between on a large section of grass within the park.

The EIIR measures 30 metres by 30 metres and is located between a football pitch and the former skatepark area.

This marking is found on the likes of stamps and post boxes.

ER stands for something specific to our former, much-admired, longest-reigning monarch, the late Elizabeth II.

The EIIR measures 30 metres by 30 metres and is located between a football pitch and the former skatepark area (Jonathan White).

Her Majesty sadly passed away at Balmoral last Thursday afternoon (September 8) at the age of 96.

The ER, or EIIR, initials were the Royal Cypher of Queen Elizabeth II.

The ER stands for Elizabeth Regina. Elizabeth, of course, was her first name – and Regina simply means 'Queen' in Latin.

Because she was the second Queen Elizabeth, her cypher included the Roman numerals to indicate this – II.

Queen Elizabeth II outside Crewe Railway Station, Nantwich Road, during a visit to the town in 1987 (Elizabeth Bryant).

Mr Evans said: "I was on my lunch, reflecting and thought to myself why not and marked EIIR on the Barony."

The Queen's state funeral will take place on Monday (September 19) - confirmed as a bank holiday.

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Aerial photos of the EIIR courtesy of Des Evans.

Ryan Parker and Jonathan White