. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. g to the circular goal. The mazeultimately went to ruin and its site has long been builtupon. The maze in the beautiful little gardens at SaffronWalden which were presented to the public nearly acentury ago by Mr. L. Fry, , and are known asBridge End Gardens, is still in excellent condition, al-though suffering in places from the illicit short-cuts madeby impatient visitors. It is locally believed to be a replicaof that at Hampton Court, but is of very different planand is, in fact, much more elaborate. Our photog
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. g to the circular goal. The mazeultimately went to ruin and its site has long been builtupon. The maze in the beautiful little gardens at SaffronWalden which were presented to the public nearly acentury ago by Mr. L. Fry, , and are known asBridge End Gardens, is still in excellent condition, al-though suffering in places from the illicit short-cuts madeby impatient visitors. It is locally believed to be a replicaof that at Hampton Court, but is of very different planand is, in fact, much more elaborate. Our photographs,Figs. 121 and 122, were taken from the pulpit-like erec-tion at one end of the central enclosure, looking roughlytowards the south and the north respectively. It will be noticed that a person standing on the erec-tion is precluded from mapping out the maze therefrom,138 by reason of the tall topiary upgrowths at various points,designed, no doubt, with this object. This maze issituated within a few hundred yards of the turf mazewhich we noticed in a previous Fig. 120.—Maze by W. H. Nesfield, in Gardens, SouthKensington, circ. 1862. (From Guide.) Another modern hedge maze in the same county isthat in the grounds of Mistley Place, Manningtree, theresidence of E. M. Jackson, Esq., , who has kindlyfurnished the writer with some details concerning it. 139 The maze was planted about fifty years ago, but un-fortunately the choice of material was not of the mostjudicious, for, while the major portion is of beech, youngoaks were planted in the outer circle and these have nowgrown up into large trees, overshadowing and ruiningthe neighbouring portions of the hedge, so that it is nowdifficult to trace the plan. Only the inner circles remaincomplete. In the adjacent county of Suffolk there is anothermaze of about the same age but of very different pattern,at Somerleyton Hall, the seat of Lord Somerleyton (). The hedges in this case are of yew and a
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