On 18 Dec, 13:57, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

It's marked as Savoy Circus on a map - well on Streetmap at least...
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/oldmap.sr...0&y=180500ar=N

...is it Western Circus on the signs there then? And more to the
point, where exactly is the purported Circus, or was this location
once host to a long gone roundabout?

Lots of circuses do not contain roundabouts... I'm not sure if they all did
once.


No you're quite right, and actually I think it was simply a name for
places where many roads met up. No need for complex traffic junctions
when everything was horse (or indeed human!) driven.


I realise there is a roundabout
of sorts as traffic coming off the westbound A40 that wishes to head
northbound

... or southbound traffic that wishes to head west...

Yes, I wasn't sure about the junction.layout but of course that
follows.


has to go literally round a block (Old Oak Lane, East Acton
Lane, Oal Oak Common Lane), so is that the Circus?

No, and that's not a roundabout either, because traffic looping around the
north corner has to give way.