Historically, a turf maze is a labyrinth made by cutting a convoluted path into a level area of short grass, turf or lawn. Some had names such as Mizmaze...
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the game are also categorised as mazes or tour puzzles. Mazes have been built with walls and rooms, with hedges, turf, corn stalks, straw bales, books...
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Gardening portal Corn maze Straw maze Turf maze Fisher, Adrian (2004). Mazes & Follies. Jarrold Publishing. Wright, Craig M. (2001). The maze and the warrior:...
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Labyrinth (category Mazes)
British turf labyrinths by Marilyn Clark. Photos and descriptions of the surviving historical turf mazes in Britain. Theedkins.co.uk, Jo Edkins's Maze Page...
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Troy Town (category Mazes)
Many turf mazes in England were named Troy Town, Troy-town or variations on that theme (such as Troy, The City of Troy, Troy's Walls, Troy's Hoy, or The...
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Caerdroia (category Mazes)
A caerdroia is a Welsh turf maze, usually in the sevenfold Cretan labyrinth design. They were created by shepherds on hilltops and were apparently the...
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Alkborough (redirect from Alkborough Turf Maze)
is Julian's Bower, a unicursal turf maze, 43 feet (13 m) across, of indeterminate age. Although referred to as a maze, being unicursal (having only one...
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Stumpery Sylvan theater Summerhouse Terrace Topiary Tōrō (lantern) Trellis Turf maze Water feature Water garden Woodland garden Zig-zag bridge Monopteros in...
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Intercultural Garden Keyhole garden Kitchen garden Knot garden Maze Hedge maze Turf maze Memorial garden Monastic garden Moon garden Moss garden Orangery...
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castle is a turf maze, a series of circular excavations cut into the turf of the common. It is the largest example of this style of maze in England, the...
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Maiden Bower hillfort (section Turf maze)
in a discussion of Julian's Bowers, thought they were once sites of turf mazes, and regarded Maiden Bower as having been such a site. Hillforts in Britain...
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Julian's Bower (category Mazes)
53.684854; -0.669407 Julian's Bower or Julian Bower is a name given to turf mazes in several different parts of England. Only one of this name still exists...
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Hilton, Cambridgeshire (category Mazes)
who were members of the Bloomsbury Group. On the village green is a turf maze that was cut by William Sparrow in 1660. As a civil parish, Hilton has...
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Wing, Rutland (section Maze)
north arcade, and the north doorway. Cut into the turf beside Glaston Road is a circular "turf maze" roughly 40 ft (12 m) in diameter (actually a unicursal...
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People protesting against the building of an A46 bypass road cut a small turf maze into the hill, during the construction of the bypass in the mid-1990s...
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Huntingdon Grammar School. William Sparrow (1641–1729), cut the famous turf maze at Hilton in 1660. Alice and Thomas Curwen were active in the county as...
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Leeds Castle (category Mazes)
the original on 11 November 2007, retrieved 14 March 2012 The Maze, Grotto and Turf Maze, Leeds Castle, retrieved 14 March 2012[permanent dead link] Fisher...
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recolonisation of the area by chalk-loving plant species. There are three turf mazes in the Holies. The slopes of the property form one of the largest remaining...
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Alkborough Turf Maze Belgrave Hall and its ghosts Black Annis Black Lady of Bradley Woods Border Morris Bottle-kicking Byard's Leap Chained Oak The Derby...
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Falls from a hill a mile away to the east is Julian's Bower, an ancient turf maze on the edge of the Lincolnshire village of Alkborough. It dates from at...
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Municipality of the County of Inverness, Nova Scotia Troy Town or Troy, some turf mazes in England Fowey, Cornwall or Troy Town Troy, Alabama Troy University...
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SE625718 in Bonnygate Lane / High Lane is a turf maze called The City of Troy. It is described as the smallest turf maze in Europe. The round barrow at grid reference...
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Badges Lamb Down Military Badge Long Man of Wilmington Solsbury Hill turf maze The Mizmaze "Litlington White Horse". Atlas Obscura. Atlas Obscura. "Litlington...
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the Great Basin Desert in the southwestern United States. Hill figures, turf mazes and the stone-lined labyrinths of Scandinavia, Iceland, Lappland and the...
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present-day Turkey. It may also refer to: Troy Town, a name for various turf mazes in England Troy Town, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Logan...
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bridge at Stein. Media related to Insel Werd at Wikimedia Commons Franciscan Friars on the island of Werd Photo: turf maze at Werd, viewed from the air...
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1577 and 1620. One outlying farm Troy Farm possessing a well preserved turf maze dates from the 16th century and was probably built on the site of the...
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Randoll Coate (category Mazes)
Archbishop's Maze (1980) — a brick path and turf maze at Greys Court, England, incorporating Christian symbolism to commemorate the maze metaphor that...
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Saffron Walden Natural History Society. Saffron Walden Turf Maze Saffron Walden Largest turf maze in Europe. Stansted Mountfitchet Castle Stansted Mountfitchet...
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