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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 Wilts & 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. A wharf occupied one edge and the area was known as the Marsh. Its site became covered by Drove Roundabout, which was later redeveloped as the Magic Roundabout. 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. The roundabout is built over a section of the old Wilts & Berks Canal-Swindon wharf.

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A police officer was stationed at each mini roundabout during this pilot phase to oversee how drivers coped with the unique arrangement. When the roundabout complex was first opened, the mini-roundabouts were not permanently marked out and could be reconfigured while the layout was fine tuned. Virtually the same overall configuration has been in place for 49 years. The inner circle carries traffic in an anticlockwise direction, and more proficient users may choose to use the alternative paths. The outer circle carries traffic in a clockwise direction, like a normal roundabout (in places where traffic drives on the left hand side of the road), and less proficient users may choose to use only the outer circle.

The complex junction offers multiple paths between feeder roads. Traffic flow around the inner circle is anticlockwise, and traffic flows in the usual clockwise manner around the five mini-roundabouts on the outer loop. The roundabout was constructed according to the design of Frank Blackmore, of the British Transport and Road Research Laboratory. Main article: Roundabout В§В Magic roundabout

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