On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:17:09 +0000, Paul Terry wrote:

In message m, Martin
Underwood writes

Blimey - a sort of inner-London M25! I'd no idea that there were ever plans
for this!

The original Abercrombie plan (dating back to the 1940s) was for five
ringways. The innermost was Ringway A and roughly on the alignment of
the current inner ring road.

Tim Moore's book "Don't Stop at Go" (the one where he does the Monopoly
board around London) has got a lot to say about this plan, IIRC.

There was supposed to be a big roundabout around Centre Point too.