Magic Roundabout (Swindon) be reconfigured while the layout was fine tuned. A police officer was stationed at each mini roundabout during this pilot phase to oversee how drivers coped with the unique arrangement. The roundabout is built over a section of the old Wilts and Berks Canal – Swindon wharf. A narrow, stone bridge built c. 1810, which is a grade II listed building, carried the old Saxon way known as Drove Road over the canal half a mile east of the town centre. Its site became covered by Drove Roundabout, which was later redeveloped as the Magic Roundabout. A wharf occupied one
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