Whitebirk Roundabout

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A ringroad is a road which takes you past a town without having to go through it. The M25 is a sort of ring road. A ring road usually goes all the way round a town or built up urban area (but not necessarily in a ring.) and can be approached and used from a variety of directions as opposed to a by-pass which usually only goes from A to B and B to A (like the A59 by passing Skipton.)

A roundabout is just a type of road junction. It can be an alternative to a simple cross roads where two roads cross over each other and instead of just the intersection you have a roundabout. Or it can be a larger affair with more roads joining into it. In some cases it can even have smaller roundabouts as sort of offshoots of it. It can even have traffic lights to control which approach roads have access to it. It usually does not have anything much in the middle. Some have statues or other decorative items in the middle, like flower beds or trees. It certainly wouldn't have a town in the middle!