Magic Roundabout (Swindon) Magic Roundabout (Swindon) The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, was constructed in 1972 and is a ring junction consisting of five mini-roundabouts arranged around a sixth central, anticlockwise roundabout. Located near the County Ground, home of Swindon Town F.C., its name comes from the popular children's television series "The Magic Roundabout". In 2009 it was voted the fourth scariest junction in Britain. The roundabout was constructed according to the design of Frank Blackmore, of the British Transport and Road Research Laboratory. Traffic flow around the larger, inner roundabout is counterclockwise, and traffic flows in the usual clockwise manner around the
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