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Surely new Southgate cemetery is a spurr and wheel design?
No one? Fine. I'll get my coat |
re. the Millennium Dome, it would have been better for bragging if they had claimed the diameter as 366m, since 2000 was a leap year.
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The North-South Circular, can't think of any straight bits
PS Don't feel the need to walk it all dg writes: Not a circle. |
Valence Circus, Dagenham?
dg writes: 220m. Added, thanks. |
The Greenway, Wells, Epsom Common?
dg writes: Not a circle. Not in London. |
You could make a case for the inner pavement around Crowley/Cosedge being a complete circle, even if the roadway isn't. Streetview suggests this to be the case.
Great idea for a post, anyway! |
The red circle containing the letter 'M' that marks the top of every bus stop in London.
Also waiting for you to reject the circle line as 'not a circle' |
Is Park Crescent in Harrow circlish enough?
dg writes: It's a little irregular. But 180m. |
Thank you dg, not enormous but a fairly large circle, Diana Fountain, Bushy Park.
dg writes: Diameter 125m - quite possibly London's largest circular water feature. |
The London Eye is presumbably the tallest circle at 120m diameter.
But we fall down compared to Stockholm on hemispherical buildings, where Globen has a diameter of 110m. While usually used for concerts and ice hockey, my favourite use of Globen is as the sun in a scale model of the solar system that stretched across Sweden. Mercury is about a foot across and is located at the City museum, two miles from the arena. And the system continues out to the dwarf planet Sedna located over 500 miles from Stockholm. |
Is the new Wembley Stadium completely circular?
dg writes: According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "almost round". Added, thanks. |
There is a rumour that sometime in the last few years there has been a fatality amongst the cyclists that (ab)use Regents park inner circle as a free high speed velodrome (often at more than 20mph)--said cyclist running into back of a stationary (parked) vehicle at speed.
I haven't been able to source a news report to confirm this, though, which is why I call this a rumour. |
The proposed MSG Sphere concert venue in Stratford would be 120m in diameter, just about beating Stockholm's Globen.
Near the Waterworks Corner junction of the North Circular is a 160m wide circular clearing in the forest, called simply "The Circle". |
Ever feel like you're just going round in circles?!
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Unfortunately the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, erm, isn't. (It's about 250 metres across its long axis)
Shame the Greenwich Meridian doesn't count. |
My favourite non circle in London is a street in North Wembley called "The Crescent" It is about 400m long and dead straight. It's a shame the planners didn't go the whole hog and call it "The Circle".
Outside of London, State Circle in Canberra is 3km long. |
How about Royal Circus SE27 - a circle on the map, built on a hillside?
dg writes: 120m. |
i'm guessing (as i often do) that the Circle-Line is the largest non-circle, circle named thing in London
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Three Mills Green?. i make is somewhere around 108m. Not a patch on others, but on your doorstep.
Doesn't show up very well in Streetmap... Long time lurker, never interacted, until now. Really enjoy your blog! |
M25 junction 30 looks bigger on the map than 29.
dg writes: Not in London. |
Millbrook testing grounds (for cars.) 1km circle!
dg writes: 30 miles outside London. |
I guess the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery is too small. It seems the inner circle has a circumference of 500 feet, so perhaps 150 feet in diameter, but presumably the outer circle is significantly larger.
dg writes: 40m. |
Circular, notable, but not large.
Replica Shakespeare Globe Theatre (33.5m) |
After visiting Crowley Crescent in Waddon,you should've taken either a 154 or 157 to Morden,and then strolled up either Kenley Road or Poplar Road to Circle Gardens,which is built in a circle.Most traffic uses Circle Gardens as a two way road.The exception is the bus route K5,which treats Circle Gardens as a roundabout.
dg writes: 100m. |
From Twitter:
"A shame that Arden Crescent is only a semi-circle. Completed, it would have dwarfed those with a diameter of 470m." (@Calmeilles) |
I wonder if there are any structures underground which count, like pipework..
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Clyde Circus in Tottenham. Just west of Tottenham Green. Very nice and it also boasts a conservation area.
dg writes: 70m. |
Underground circles:
Bloomsbury Square underground car park (double helix circle). Famous from various films. Circa 70m. |
Roman Amphitheatre, Guildhall. Shorely worth an honourable menshun.
dg writes: Not circular.(105m long, 85m wide). |
There appears to be a circular enclosure around the Wimbledon Common War Memorial, beside the Richardson Evans Memorial Playing Fields. The map thing suggests it is about 160m across.
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Also not winning a prize, within the M25 but in Surrey, in Whiteley Village there is Circle Road, about 170m diameter, surrounded by Octagon Road, about 340m across.
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I used to live round the corner from Crowley Crescent on Violet Lane until I was six. Near Epsom there is the Greenway but it's not quite circular and also not in London |
Westferry Circus.. circular, but probably too small.
dg writes: 90m. |
It's a mere 54m, but the road round the fountain at Waltham Forest Town Hall is at least a proper circle.
The Velodrome in the Olympic Park is another not-quite circle, around 130m across. |
Bermondsey Spa Gardens has a 107m diameter circular path.
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Oooh I was going to say the Greenway too. 420m, just outside London though. And it should be a circle as it was a measured area from the well in the centre - but clearly its gone a bit skew whiff in the last 300 years.
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"I unintentionally walked into a group of grieving policemen by the chapel while I was trying to keep out of the way of a fox."
This is the best sentence I've read in ages. Thank you, DG. |
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