British turf mazes According to W.H. Matthews (Mazes and Labyrinths, 1922), turf mazes also used to exist at: Appleby, Lincolnshire "Troy's Walls" (mentioned by Abraham de la Pryme c. 1700) Asenby, North Yorkshire (extant but "ruinous" in 1908) Ashwell, then in Bedfordshire (mentioned by William Stukeley in the 18th century) Bere Regis, Dorset Boughton Green, near Boughton, Northamptonshire "Shepherd Ring" or "Shepherd's Race" (unusual spiral centre; extant 1849 but "neglected", destroyed by soldiers digging practice trenches during World War I) Clifton, Nottinghamshire Comberton, Cambridgeshire (extant 1922, relocation of earlier maze, "The Mazles") "Troy-town" near Dorchester, Dorset Dover's Hill near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire (mentioned by John Aubrey) "Maiden Bower" on downs near Dunstable, Bedfordshire Edenbridge, Kent: maps mark a "Troy Town" and "Troy Lane" at close to the Surrey/Kent border and about 2 km northwest of Edenbridge Egton, North Yorkshire, near Whitby (traces visible in 1872) On Hilldown hill, between Farnham and Guildford, Surrey: "Troy-town" Goathland, North Yorkshire: "July Park" or "St Julian's" Herefordshire Beacon in the Malvern Hills Horncastle, Lincolnshire "Julian Bower" (mentioned by Stukeley in the 18th century) Leigh, Dorset (overgrown by 1868; a raised hexagonal earthwork remains) Louth, Lincolnshire "Gelyan Bower" (mentioned in accounts of 1544) Lyddington, Rutland (regarded by Matthews as doubtful) Holderness, between Marfleet and Paull, East Riding of Yorkshire (near Kingston upon Hull) "The Walls of Troy" (dodecagonal. Illustrated 1815) Pimperne, Dorset "Troy-town" (unique design; described by John Aubrey; ploughed up 1730) Putney Heath, Surrey Ripon, North Yorkshire (unusual spiral centre; ploughed up 1827) Marshes between Burgh, Cumbria and Rockliffe, Cumbria "The Walls of Troy" (extant 1883) and two others (one of them cut in 1815) Sneinton, Nottinghamshire "Robin Hood's Race" or "Shepherd's Race" (unusual design with four bastions; ploughed up February 1797) Tadmarton Heath, Oxfordshire Walmer, Kent a "bower" or "Troy-town" West Ashton, Wiltshire (mentioned by John Aubrey) Westerham, Kent Matthews also mentions several locations where the existence of now-vanished turf mazes may be inferred from place names. In addition he states "They are also recorded as having existed in Wales and Scotland." It has been estimated that there may once have been as many as 80–100 turf mazes in Britain. Historic turf mazes in Europe Eilenriede forest, near Hanover, West Germany "Das Rad" ("The Wheel") (processional type, with tree at centre and short-cut to exit; has existed since at least 1642) Graitschen, near Camburg, Thuringia, East Germany "Schwedenhieb", "Schwedenhugel" or 'Schwedenring" Steigra, near