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A campaign to fix a pothole-riddled street called Cock Lane that was repeatedly vandalised with giant penis drawings has come to its climax.

Surrey County Council has resurfaced the now infamous Fetcham road after a vigilante artist, known as the 'Cock Lane Crusader', gave the street an obscene makeover to attract the authority's attention.

The painted penises appeared in Cock Lane overnight on September, 2015, prompting one cock-a-hoop resident to document the apparent protest over the uneven state of the road.

Matt Fielder a DJ from Bell Lane, shot a series of videos documenting the crusader's campaign to make the road "hard and smooth" once more.

(Image: Matt Fielder)

The 52-year-old told Get Surrey that it was was great to see a "happy ending" to the fiasco but "we will never know who he was but the fruits of his artistic work will bear a legacy".

During Mr Fielder's final video, he narrates that the "quiet suburban country road is no ordinary road as this is Cock Lane."

"And Cock Lane has been solved for good. There is nothing wrong with this road anymore.

“So the Crusader’s work is complete and I would just like to say, it had absolutely nothing to do with me, because I’m not that childish, but I am very glad to be at the attention that of Surrey County Council and the rest of the world in viral videos like this.

The road, which is home to what has been branded Britain's rudest address, a semi at number 69, was earmarked as part of Operation Horizon, a £100m project to fix the county's worst roads which began in 2013.

A spokesman for Surrey County Council said: "We have surfaced Cock Lane as part of our Operation Horizon scheme which is overhauling hundreds of miles of roads most in need of improvement and is all about trying to solve the problem of potholes once and for all."

According to Fetcham district councillor, Raj Haque, the road was due for resurfacing in September 2015, but was pushed back to this year.

Speaking to Get Surrey last year, he said: "The communication breakdown between the authority brings down the level of confidence in SCC, despite some good work by the authority."

Sadly, the only mystery left in the story is the identity of the illustrious Cock Lane Crusader.

Take a look at one of Mr Fielder's other videos documenting the damage