Magic Roundabout (Swindon) roundabout used to be County Islands, but it was changed in the late 1980s to match its popular name. It inspired the song "English Roundabout", a pop song by the Swindon band XTC, which was recorded for their 1982 album "English Settlement". In 2005, it was voted the worst roundabout in a survey of the general public by a UK insurance company. In September 2007, the Magic Roundabout was named as one of the world's worst junctions by a UK motoring magazine. In December 2007, "BBC News" reported a survey identifying The Magic Roundabout as one of the "10 Scariest
Roundabout intersections are called "rotaries" and the state enforces that restriction. The term "traffic circle" is not used in the United Kingdom, where most circular junctions meet the technical criteria for "modern roundabouts". However, in some parts of the English Midlands, such as in Birmingham, roundabouts are commonly called "islands", which conflicts with the more generic use of the term "island" as a structure to divide traffic flow, and can cause confusion. In the Channel Islands a third type of roundabout, known as "Filter in Turn", exists. Here approaching drivers neither yield to traffic on the roundabout, as normal, nor have