Out On The Town

■ Broadway’s “gyratory traffic flow system” of 1909 was built where six roads meet in Letchworth Garden City – making it Britain’s first roundabout.

■ The original Welwyn Stores was taken over in the early 1960s by the John Lewis Partnership.

■ “Forever Friends” greetings card millionaire Andrew Brownsword sponsored the construction of Poundbury’s Market Hall, based on Tetbury’s in the Cotswolds.

■ In August, the Dorset Food & Arts Festival is often held at Poundbury’s Queen Mother Square, attracting thousands of people.

■ Many of Scotland’s new towns, like East Kilbride, Stonehouse and Irvine, were constructed as overspill housing for Glasgow.

■ Newtown in Wales isn’t as recent as its name suggests. While designated a new town in the 1960s, it was originally founded as a rural market town in the 1200s on a ford crossing the River Severn.