Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) a New Town the roads met in a simple junction which was then replaced by a standard roundabout. Constructed in 1973, the "Magic Roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead was voted the UK's second-worst roundabout in a 2005 poll held by an insurance company (the winner being its Swindon counterpart). In 2011 the roundabout was voted the best in Britain by motorists in a competition organised by a car leasing service. The original magic roundabout had six exits in total, with the British Petroleum building spanning "Marlowes", the road leading to the town centre, in the approximate position of the earlier railway
Stopover in a Quiet Town into the town, which is now revealed to be a model village with a miniature railway running around it. The episode is referenced in the second verse of the Rush song "The Twilight Zone," recorded in 1976: "You wake up lost in an empty town/Wondering why no one else is around/Look up to see a giant boy/You've just become his brand new toy." This "Twilight Zone" episode is referenced in the sixth episode of the fourth season of the Netflix series "Orange is the New Black". Inmate counselor Healy mentions the episode to the paranoid prisoner Lolly to convey that