These roundabouts range from a simple expanse of grass to magnificent landscaped beauties.
Some feature works of art or are wildlife havens, others are sources of local history.
There are 10,000 roundabouts in the UK.
Redditch alone has over forty.
Beresford chose roundabouts and sent a graphic design student with a camera to shoot the best roundabouts in town.
The Magic Roundabout in Swindon.
Photo credit: Roundabout Appreciation Society
Never before has anyone written so poetically about the traffic rotary.
With infinite variety, colour and creative-ness, these bitumen babes lift our sagging spirits on long tiresome trips.
The roundabout is truly an oasis on a sea of tarmac.
British roundabouts are indeed very expressive.
They exchange pictures of roundabouts and discuss the different aspects of these traffic islands.
Then before Christmas, Beresford brings out a new calendar with 12 of the best specimens.
These are apparently chosen by Beresford himself and not the society.
I’m never outvoted," he toldThe Independent.
“This society is not a democracy.”
The first roundabout was set up in New York’s Columbus Circle opened around 1904.
The first roundabout in the UK appeared in the Garden City of Letchworth 1909.
It was originally intended not for motorists but to help pedestrians cross the street.
TheMagic Roundabouthas been called the most confusing roundabout in the entire country.
Today roundabouts are common in Europe with 10,000 in Britain and France leading the tally with 30,000.
Roundabouts never became popular in America who got its first modern roundabouts only in the 90s.
But its catching up fast their numbers have grown from a few hundred to 3,000 in the past decade.
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A roundabout with a duck pond in Otford, Kent.
Street view of Shepherd and Flock roundabout in Farnham.
