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the junction on the A419 between the A420 and the Blunsdon Roundabout. What is it called?
(A419/Highworth Road)

Sorry there is no prizes as it's for work!!!

Is that the Cold Harbour turn off?

nah, the one between the white hart roundabout and the blunsdon roundabout. dont think it actually has a name tbh. its just the turn off for highworth and lower stratton.

cheers fella

Is that not the Rat trap junction?

I think your right.

we've just found that name on a plan we've got.

It's actually called the Rat Pack junction. Rumour has it Sinatra was planning on building a junction somewhere in Swindon and he told Dean Martin, who he was picknicking with at the time, that where the sandwich he threw landed, that's where he'd build the junction.

The pub was called the Rat Trap,  by the locals, as an early Victorian landlady used to lock the punters in until they paid off their slates....I'd guess many of them were from the nearby Workhouse.  This was what later became the Stratton Hospital, where you went to die.

   The Workhouse was feared locally, as a place to end up for the feckless and unemployable.....there's a lovely desciption in Alfred William's book....Life in a Railway Factory.