.theguardian - 2 days ago

Dalby-cum-Skewsby, North Yorkshire: I had no idea it was here, just a few miles from home, yet its roots go deep into historyYou know those dreams about discovering new rooms in a familiar house? I’ve had one about almost every home I’ve ever known and the idea of those spaces never quite leaves. Imaginary they may be, but not consciously made-up, and so they persist as supernatural aspects of place that are particular and real to me. It’s with a similar thrill that I find myself eight miles from home staring at something I never knew was here. A labyrinth. Not a neopagan installation, but likely one of just a handful of turf mazes in Britain, and the smallest, possibly, in Europe, at under 6 metres across.Having spotted it on Google Maps while looking for something else, I dropped everything to come, as if delay might show it to be another dream. On the drive, I pondered the unlikeliness of the location, an exceptionally quiet wayside in the middle of nowhere. But now I’m here it’s plain: this is emphatically not nowhere. Huge views unfurl: north to the moors, east to the Derwent and south across the great spill of the Vale of York to South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in the hazy distance. Continue reading...

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