Transport in Swindon linked Shaw and Rushey Platt with the gate at Kingshill. The amount levied depended on the type of cart, the number of horses used and the width of wheels (as narrower wheels caused more damage to the road). Major roads near or passing through Swindon: The town is famous for its roundabouts, to the extent of selling yearly calendars featuring a different roundabout for each month. The most notable roundabout is the Magic Roundabout that lies at the junction of Drove Road, Queens Drive and Fleming Way near to the County Ground. The official name of this roundabout used to
In the First Circle Solzhenitsyn's complete works. Excerpts from the full 96 chapter version were published in English by "The New Yorker" and in "The Solzhenitsyn Reader". An English translation of the full version was published by Harper Perennial in October 2009, entitled "In the First Circle" rather than "The First Circle". The Polish director Aleksander Ford made an English language film based on the novel in 1973, "The First Circle". While it adhered closely to Solzhenitsyn's plot, the film was a critical and commercial failure. The 1992 TV movie based on the novel, "The First Circle", won Canada's Gemini Award for Best Photography