public enum MeasurementType

{

    Each,

    [DisplayText("Lineal Metres")]

    LinealMetre,

    [DisplayText("Square Metres")]

    SquareMetre,

    [DisplayText("Cubic Metres")]

    CubicMetre,

    [DisplayText("Per 1000")]

    Per1000,

    Other

}

public class DisplayText : Attribute

{

    public DisplayText(string Text)

    {

        this.text = Text;

    }

    private string text;

    public string Text

    {

        get { return text; }

        set { text = value; }

    }

}

Then, used an extension method like this:

    public static string ToDescription(this Enum en)

    {

        Type type = en.GetType();

        MemberInfo[] memInfo = type.GetMember(en.ToString());

        if (memInfo != null && memInfo.Length > 0)

        {

            object[] attrs = memInfo[0].GetCustomAttributes(

                                          typeof(DisplayText),

                                          false);

            if (attrs != null && attrs.Length > 0)

                return ((DisplayText)attrs[0]).Text;

        }

        return en.ToString();

    }

You can then just call

myEnum.ToDescription()