Mazes and Labyrinths

Labyrinths are found in rock, mosaics and turf all over the world, and seem to have been known to magicians from very ancient times. In the traditional designs no choices are offered to the seekers, the path simply delivering the walker to the centre in a certain way.But what does it mean Can you really get lost in a Maze What have gremlins got to do with it all And the Minotaur This tiny book of graphic beginnings, ending and lanes in between is a beautiful and thoughtprovoking guide to this fascinating subject.

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• 3 First published 1996 AD Revised edition Wooden Books Ltd 2005 AD Published by Wooden Books Ltd.
• 4 To my Mother, Tess In this book most designs are shown with their entrance at the bottom of the pa
• 1 mazes Beware You can get lost
• 2 3 The first section of this book deals with Mazes, designs in which you can get lost, where choice
• 4 5 This maze design appears in a 17th century manuscript in the British Museum and is an excellent
• 6 7 The Hampton Court maze is a true maze you can get quite lost The present hedges were planted i
• 8 9 A Renaissance publication, The Orchard and the Garden, written by Adam Islip in 1602 contains th
• 10 11 The yew maze at Hatfield House was planted in 1840. Situated to the east of the house, it is
• 12 13 By the nineteenth century the process of separation between the physical sciences and the meta
• 14 15 The maze at Chatsworth House was planted in 1962 to an earlier design and stands on the site o
• 16 17 In recent years a modern craze of maze and labyrinth building has taken over the country. A c
• 18 19 lAByriNTHS Just follow the path
• 20 21 The common classical labyrinth has seven coils and is shown in one form opposite lower right a
• 22 23 Rockcliffe Marsh in Cumbria used to have a number of turf labyrinths. The beautiful design sh
• 24 25 Two miles outside Oxford lies the village of Temple Cowley and here was once found the most si
• 26 27 Far from being a dead art, traditional labyrinths have been springing up all over the country
• 28 29 Five Roman labyrinths have been found in the British Isles to date and the one shown opposite
• 30 31 On the verge beside the B1363 from Dalby to Terrington in Yorkshire can be found the only turf
• 32 33 This labyrinth, at Somerton in Oxfordshire, is the only fifteen coil classical labyrinth in th
• 34 35 The only square labyrinth to have survived from antiquity is the ninecircuit Miz Maze on St. C
• 36 37 This quartered sevencircuit design appeared in a book by Thomas Hyll in 1563. Entitled A Most
• 38 39 This labyrinth can be found inside the Watts Memorial Chapel, Compton, in Surrey. It is a cop
• 40 41 In 1985 this fascinating and enigmatic labyrinth was laid in the parish church of Batheaston n
• 42 43 This charming labyrinth appears in a tiny book amongst the Harley manuscripts in the British M
• 44 45 This unique and unusual labyrinth once existed at Pimperne in Dorset, near Blandford. It was
• 46 47 Thirtyseven feet across, this labyrinth once existed on the village green of Boughton, near No
• 48 49 The largest ancient labyrinth in the British Isles can still be seen on the village green in t
• 50 51 This ancient labyrinth used to sit on the summit of a hill near St. Annes holy well, Sneinton,
• 52 53 In 1870 this labyrinth was laid in the pavement under the west tower of Ely Cathedral in Cambr
• 54 55 This turf labyrinth was first cut by the Patriotic Company of Shoemakers at Kingsland near Shr
• 56 57 The earliest and most famous elevencoil medieval labyrinth is found on the floor of Chartres C
• 58 One way of unifying the line and the curve was shown on page 20 another is shown below. Both pro