Magic Roundabout (Swindon) edge and the area was known as The Marsh. The Wilts and Berks Canal Trust are currently in negotiations with Swindon Council to include in the New Swindon Regeneration Framework plans to restore the canal through the town centre. The restoration would use the route of the North Wilts Canal and not the main West Vale route that the Magic Roundabout sits over. The North Wilts Canal was a separate branch which exited the town northwards through Moredon. A calendar is produced each year by the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society depicting the town's finest examples. The official name of the
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