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Topic: Turf maze

	Qivx Inc, Amaze - The Mazes of Amaze
		Turf mazes in England consist of a raised turf path with divides cut as trenches, or as worn dirt paths.
		It is similar in pattern to the traditional eleven-fold maze of which the most famous example is the Cathedral Maze of Chartres France and as a turf maze called Julian's Bower.
		Roman labyrinth mazes tend to be rectangular and repetitive.
	www.qivx.com /amaze/q_themazes.php (1163 words)

	The UnMuseum - The History of Mazes
		We might note that a maze is usually meant to be a puzzle that must be solved and therefore usually has a goal which is meant to be reached.
		From the turf maze it is no big jump to perhaps the most famous form of full-size maze, the topiary, or hedge maze.
		A multicursal maze has branches (also called blind alleys) but you should make them long enough that they are not easily identifiable as blind alleys from the branch and short enough that tracing them to a dead end does not tire the player.
	www.unmuseum.org /maze.htm (2518 words)

	The Maze
		The age and purpose of the maze at the east end of the Common are not known, but it may date back to mediaeval times.
		The maze is the largest surviving turf maze in England with a diameter of about 100 feet and a diagonal from 'ear' to 'ear' of 138 feet.
		in 1979 the maze was extensively restored; the turf was improved and all 6000 or so red bricks were relaid to form a path four and a half inches wide.
	www.uttlesford.gov.uk /community+info/the+maze (219 words)

	Alkborough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Julian's Bower turf maze overlooks Alkborough Flats and the confluence of the Rivers Trent, Ouse and Humber
		Close to the Cliff edge is Julian's Bower, a unicursal turf maze, 43 feet (13 m) across, of indeterminate age.
		In case the maze becomes overgrown or otherwise indistinct, its pattern is recorded, in a 19th century stained glass church window, on the floor of the church porch and also on the gravestone of James Goulton Constable, which is in Alkborough cemetery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alkborough_Turf_Maze (489 words)

	Jo Edkins's Maze Page - Chartres Maze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Either you were supposed to walk the maze as a substitute for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or you had to shuffle along on your knees as a penance.
		The Chartres maze is an improvement on the Cretan and Roman mazes.
		Saffron Walden maze is an English turf maze on Saffron Walden Common, in the centre of the town.
	www.gwydir.demon.co.uk /jo/maze/chartres.htm (2023 words)

	AMM 1993 Original
		In this case, the "Amazing Maize Maze" is built in the shape on a dinosaur - a huge one cut out of 3 acres on farmer Gerald Hoffer's field in Annville, 20 miles east of Harrisburg.
		The attraction is the same as in other mazes (usually built from hedges) that have been popular around the world.
		After that, corn dies, and the maze may or may not be built next year.
	www.americanmaze.com /annville.htm (339 words)

	Labyrinth
		In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate maze constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half human and half bull, eventually killed by Theseus.
		The term is often used interchangeably with maze, but a maze is a puzzle with choices of path and direction, while a unicursal labyrinth has only a single path to the centre.
		It is this version of the design that is thought to be the inspiration for the many secular turf labyrinths in the UK, such as Wing in Rutland, Hilton in Cambridgeshire, Alkborough Turf Maze, and Saffron Walden in Essex.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/la/labyrinth.html (764 words)

	BBC Online - Beyond the Broadcast - Making History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The purpose of turf mazes was discussed by Kevin Leahy, Principal Keeper of Archaeology at North Lincolnshire Museum.
		Patterns identical to those of turf mazes appear on the floors of medieval cathedrals, and it has been suggested they were some kind of penitential - that monks would go round to the centre on their knees, perhaps praying.
		The centre of the maze was sometimes known as Jerusalem so the maze may have represented a pilgrimage to Jerusalem or life's pilgrimage through to eternity.
	bbc.co.uk /education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist5_prog10b.shtml (377 words)

	At the Edge archive: turf labyrinths
		It is the smallest turf maze in Europe.
		Known as the 'Mizmaze', this is a square maze 90 by 86 feet, found on St Catherine's Hill, within an iron age hill fort to the south of Winchester.
		The maze is to be found on the very top of the hill, to the right of the large clump of trees.
	www.indigogroup.co.uk /edge/Mazes.htm (1212 words)

	Mystery and Magic of Labyrinths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It seems that this early labyrinth, which may have been more of a maze than a labyrinth, was a huge building (or series of connected buildings) with a myriad of confusing passageways in which it was easy to get lost.
		The ancient Romans produced their version of the labyrinth in England in the form of “turf mazes” which were cut approximately six inches into the ground.
		The turf labyrinth was more popular in England than the church labyrinth, however, many of these have been found near monastery ruins.
	www.kynes.net /labyrinth.htm (1725 words)

	Arthurs Seat Maze - Packages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Arthurs Seat Maze’s proprietors Michael and Sally Savage took over the running of Solair café / restaurant in March 2002 realizing their vision of incorporating the tranquility and harmony of the Arthurs Seat Maze gardens with the sensational foods and wines of Solair.
		Wedding ceremonies are held in the gazebo located in the turf maze, the design of the turf maze offers more than just a breathtaking backdrop as it has a historical significance for a wedding ceremony.
		The mazes, sculpture park and 20 theme gardens including a formal Japanese garden, fragrant cottage gardens and a beautiful marble sculpture garden are a photographer’s paradise.
	www.arthursseatmaze.com.au /weddings.htm (292 words)

	Adrian Fisher Mazes Ltd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The maze measures 20 metres across, and there is a 30 minute cycle to its fountain configuration.
		The world's largest ancient turf maze is on the common at Saffron Walden, Essex England.
		Further world maze records are listed in the definitive book "The Art of the Maze" by Adrian Fisher.
	www.mazemaker.com /wrldrcrd.htm (313 words)

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		The method I devised for this was to tie two knots on a rope, one for the inner radius of the row of bricks and one for the outer.
		The last bits to be completed in this stage were the short arcs into the maze and from the maze into the center ring, which I installed with a small hand trowel, before raking bits of turf and dirt from the finished maze.
		My maze is around 350 feet long, a far cry from the mile long pattern Wendy and I walked in the spring, but it is already a minor landmark in my neighborhood, so many people having followed our progress.
	www.tcinternet.net /users/tsbaxter/Maze.htm (2210 words)

	Britain - Path-in-Grass Mazes
		Bath - The Bath Festival Maze, Beazer Gardens, near Pulteney Bridge, Bath, Avon, England (O.S. Ref. ST 753649); Bath stone maze paths in grass, elliptical, 97 x 73 ft; circular mosaic centrepiece with six apses and seven Gaze-Mazes portraying Gorgon,.
		Chenies - Chenies Turf Maze, Chenies Manor House, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England (Tel: 01494 2888); maze design based on portrait of Edward, Lord Russell, dated 1573, now hanging in Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire; maze of gravel paths in grass, circular, 48 x 48 ft; built by Denys Tweddell, 1983.
		Warrington - Warrington Turf Maze, Parkfield, Warrington, Cheshire, England (O.S. Ref. SJ 630914); gravel paths in grass, circular, 60 x 60 ft; 1985.
	www.maze-world.com /BritainPath-Grass.htm (794 words)

	Everything Is Green
		This maze was created to celebrate the first unmanned landing on the planet Mars.
		This mirror maze is excellently maintained, and is one of the most impressive mirror mazes anywhere in the world.
		He's created over 200 mazes worldwide in 17 countries across 5 continents, designed the world's first cornfield maize maze, has set 4 Guinness World Records, and is the world's leading designer of mirror mazes.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/working/growing_bigger.htm (1637 words)

	Adrian Fisher Mazes Ltd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The result was a Maze for the Blind at RNIB New College, Worcester, England; maze design by Adrian Fisher.
		Mazes shown include Holywell Bay Maze, Newquay Zoo Maze (both in Cornwall), and the Magical Mirror Maze at Wookey Hole Caves, Somerset.
		The climax involves the hero conquering the beast at the centre of the death maze - both literally and psychologically.
	www.mazemaker.com /media_information.htm (782 words)

	USA - Modern Turf Mazes
		A variation of maze # 2, with a small rock wall (16 inches high) lining a crushed rock pathway.
		An earth maze about 80 feet in diameter, whose use in the park is for personal spiritual pilgrimages.
		Path width (2.72 feet, the megalithic yard, a unit of measure used in the construction of stone circles in England) adjusted so that 22 dio (distance in and out, that is from the entrance to the center and then back out to the entrance) would equal 7 miles.
	www.maze-world.com /usamodtrf.htm (736 words)

	Mazes Factsheet - Gardening Australia - ABC
		A maze is probably the fore-runner of parterre garden with its formality and geometric lines.
		There is also a turf maze, a long and winding path to the centre - a 10m high topiary dragon.
		The maize maze is designed with 55 rings on a grid used as the pathways through amongst 1.2 hectares of 2 meter high corn, with all their tricks and traps and deadends.
	www.abc.net.au /gardening/stories/s120535.htm (476 words)

	Exhibition archive - An Amazing Art - Norton Museum of Art - West Palm Beach Florida
		Fascinating outdoor mazes in the show will include the daring rope maze; the elegant turf maze, inspired by ancient English and Celtic historical examples; and the fabulous Minotaur maze created out of colored bricks, inspired by a Roman mosaic maze in Switzerland, and permanently installed in the Museum's new East Garden.
		The maze in one form or another has long been a symbol of man's struggle against eternal forces and has been popular in many cultures, from the ancient Greeks, Romans and Celts, through the great European cultures of the Renaissance and the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		Today, the maze or labyrinth is as popular as ever, and is certain to attract children and adults from around the world.
	www.norton.org /exhibitions/archiveamazing.htm (388 words)

	Jo Edkins's Maze Page - Making a a Maze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Cretan maze is always shown and drawn with its walls, but other mazes are easier to design using their paths.
		The turf mazes of England are made by striping off the grass turf to reveal the chalk rock beneath.
		Many mazes, particularly Roman and church mazes, are made of mosaic or paving set permanently in the floor, or on a wall.
	www.gwydir.demon.co.uk /jo/maze/design.htm (3477 words)

	It's a maze thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Boonstraâs maze gets a little extra kick on the two weekends before Halloween, when he puts in haunting music, fog and eerie lights, a couple of coffins with very scary tenants, and sets up the Tower of Terror with hired actors portraying sinister monsters.
		At Grahamâs Groves south of Carman, maps are provided for each of the two mazes the Grahams have built each year since 1998, one small, relatively simple one for warm-up walking, the larger, adjacent maze a far tougher challenge.
		Ancient Turf Maze: on the common at Saffron Walden, Essex England.
	www.canada.com /travel/story.html?id=b2466b9c-3f20-4d08-b391-fb6f55c37d46 (1220 words)

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		It is similar to a turf, but usually doesn't have icons.
		Turfs are the second part of the atom.
		Turfs are used for such things as grass, dirt, and other ground like things you would use.
	www.angelfire.com /games4/airjoe12/MazeTutorial.html (1068 words)

	Adrian Fisher Mazes Ltd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Adrian Fisher’s international contribution to the Maze Art Form was recognised in early 1997 with his first American one-man show at the prestigious Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.
		Enter the maze at the foot of the design, and travel along the gold and cream paths.
		Finally Adrian personally directed the construction of a giant Egg Turf Maze and encompassing Serpent Mound as a piece of Performance Art during the first week of the exhibition.
	www.mazemaker.com /Projects_NortonMuseumOfArt.htm (375 words)

	(GCA167) Maze and Labyrinth by ixist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We did the maze as a family, and we were in the maze for almost two hours, there are water stations in the maze and a snack bar.
		At the farm was also a hay maze with tunnels, a maze for the little kids made from bales of hay for them to run around in.For the farm I have the Coords And the pic of the GPSr.
		This maze, built in 1984, is fashioned after the Somerleyton Hall Maze in England, which was planted in 1846.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCA167&log=y (3905 words)

	History of Mazes and Labyrinths: Ancient Mazes
		Although the true origins of the maze probably go back to neolithic times, the earliest mazes we know of were actually architectural monuments built in Egypt and on Crete (an island in the Mediterranean) about 4000 years ago.
		The most impressive of these architectural mazes was known as the Egyptian Labyrinth.
		Amenemhet was fascinated by mazes, and he also created a fantastic life-size maze inside his nearby pyramid to thwart tomb robbers.
	www.amazeingart.com /maze-faqs/ancient-mazes.html (797 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In his rope maze, you clip yourself to a thick, colored rope and follow it under and over other ropes.
		He has also built a water maze in which 208 fountain jets form "walls" of water and "doorways" that appear and disappear.
		Some ancient "turf" labyrinths were carved into the sod in England and remain today.
	www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/10/06/f-p8s2.shtml (372 words)

	PuzzlePLAYGROUND - The Alkborough Maze
		Trace your path through the maze from the entrance at its top to the white spot at its center.
		The maze known as "Julian's Bower" is the unicursal maze, first mentioned in 1697 and believed to date from the medieval period.
		The turf maze was still used for May-eve games until about 1850.
	www.puzzles.com /PuzzlePlayground/AlkboroughMaze/AlkboroughMaze.htm (101 words)

	Caerdroia - Labyrinth 2000 Conference
		This conference, hosted by Jeff and Kimberly Saward of Labyrinthos, was a day of mazes and labyrinths held in the historic town of Saffron Walden, with its 17th century turf labyrinth and 19th century hedge maze.
		However the wide range of approaches to the ancient single-pathed labyrinths, modern puzzle mazes and current-day revivals represented by the speakers was astounding and thoroughly compulsive listening.
		I was struck by the sheer number of mazes that there are out there, although very few of them employed the familiar uni-cursal (single-pathed) labyrinth shapes, indeed many were bewilderingly complex in their solutions.
	www.labyrinthos.net /labyrinth2000.htm (1224 words)

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