page_title: Turf maze
section_title: Some modern turf mazes
hierarchical_section_title: Turf maze / Some modern turf mazes
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture of the Seaton Labyrinth, a turf maze labyrinth in Seaton, Devon. It opened on 24 July 2005.
context_page_description: 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, Troy Town, The Walls of Troy, Julian's Bower, or Shepherd's Race. This is the type of maze referred to by William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream when Titania says
  The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud;
  and the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
  for lack of tread are undistinguishable.
  In some turf labyrinths, the groove cut in the turf is the path to be walked; more commonly the turf itself forms the raised path which is marked out by shallow channels excavated between its twists and turns.
  Most British examples are based on one of two layouts: the Classical or the later, more complex Medieval type which is derived from it.
context_section_description: (Note that not all are open to the public).
  Greensboro, Vermont, USA (labyrinth by Sig Lonegren, 1986)
  "Archbishop's Maze" Grey's Court, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England (by Randoll Coate and Adrian Fisher, 1981) (brick paths; a unicursal/multicursal hybrid)
  Chenies Manor House, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England (unusual design based on painting of 1573; built by Denys Tweddell, 1983)
  "Earth and Wild Flower Labyrinth", Tapton Park, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England (by Jim Buchanan, 1996; largest classical labyrinth in the world?)
  Navano, California, USA (labyrinth by Alex Champion, 1987)
  Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk, England (grass paths marked out with stone; by Jane Sunderland, 2002)
  Parkfield, Warrington, Cheshire (gravel paths; made 1985)
  Rose Hill Quarry, Swansea, Wales (gravel paths; by Bob Shaw, 1987)
  Rosehill Park, Rawmarsh, South Yorkshire (a small maze with gravel paths, 2010)
  Oak Lane, Rougham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England (by Clare Higson, 1998)
  Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, (by Adrian Fisher, 1997)
  "Seaton Millennium Labyrinth" Seaton, Devon, England (2005)
  Tofte Manor, Sharnebrook, Bedfordshire, England (Chartres replica with grass paths marked with stone; by Jeff Saward & Andy Wiggins, 2004)
  Solsbury Hill, Bath, Somerset, England (Cut in the mid-1990s on the hill in protest of the A46 road which was in construction at the time)
  Stoke Newington, Hackney, London, England open to the public at the West Hackney Recreation Ground (2014)
  Cathedral of The Isles, on Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland, has a turf maze adjacent to the cathedral.
caption: Seaton Labyrinth
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