At the end of last year I wrote about the earliest turf mazes in Britain but I ran out of space to do justice to the subject, so here’s your chance to find out about the largest turf maze in the world, and discover several others including the smallest one in Europe.
The interest in all kinds of mazes, including those cut into turf, carried on well past the mediaeval period, and indeed, during the 16th and 17th centuries, as exemplified in the portrait of Lord Edward Russell [which I’ve written about earlier] they assume a symbolic importance far removed from the physical reality.
However, increasing urbanisation and the loss of rural roots, seems to have put paid to most maze creation after that until the late 19th and early 20thc. More recently interest has grown considerably with many more being designed and planted in the last 50 years or so. Although most new ones are hedge mazes there are some interesting new ones in turf too.
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