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"The Magic Roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, is the familiar name given to the Plough Roundabout. The familiar name comes from the children's television programme , and is also used for a similar junction in Swindon , the M40 junction in Denham , and the Magic Roundabout in Colchester .
The "Magic Roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead The Bury, proposed as a Dacorum museum Hemel is famous for its " Magic Roundabout " (officially called the "Plough Roundabout" from a former adjacent public house), an interchange at the end of the town centre (Moor End), where traffic from six routes meet.
The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, is a ring junction constructed in 1972 [1] consisting of five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle. 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 Magic Roundabout is an English-language children's programme that ran on BBC Television from 1965 to 1977.. It used the footage of the French stop motion animation show Le Manège enchanté but with completely different scripts and characters.
This crosses Boxmoor meadows in a strip of land in which all the earlier links run side by side: turnpike, canal, railway and modern trunk road. In 1889, Boxmoor Hall was built by the local trust from surplus funds. It has been used as a magistrates' court and, more recently, as an arts centre run by Dacorum Borough Council. In 2007, the hall ...
The Magic Roundabout, a 1979 project to build a full scale Millennium Falcon in Pembroke, Wales, for a Star Wars film; A special traffic roundabout in England with a complex layout, nicknamed after the above series, also known as a ring junction: Magic Roundabout (Colchester) Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) Magic Roundabout (High Wycombe ...
It was formerly the site of a large chalk quarry featuring a pillar and stall mine, [6] an entrance to which still exists, however, it is sealed off for human entry.. During the construction of the Grand Union Canal where it flows through Boxmoor, the navvies who carried out the work lived on an encampment at Roughdown Common. [7]
Le Manège enchanté (British English: "The Magic Roundabout", American English: "The Magic Carousel") is a popular French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1964, on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series. [2]