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Trädgårdslabyrinter var populära i slottsträdgårdar och på större gods under 1700- och 1800-talen. De bestod oftast av grusgångar separerade av buskhäckar och fungerade både som underhållning och som utsmyckning. De var anlagda i vackra mönster som kunde beskådas från någon upphöjd plats.
    De gjorde möjligt för människor att blanda det sociala med lite motion och samtidigt ha roligt i naturen! Labyrinter har byggts av andra orsaker också …

In 1950 Canon Harry Cheales, parish priest of Wyck Rissington, a small village in the south of England, had a curious dream. In it, he was looking out of window of the rectory while below him, in the garden, he could see people walking around a maze. A shadowy figure behind him was describing the scene.

The dream was so vivid that, on walking, the rector felt compelled to build a real-life version of the maze he had seen. The newly constructed maze was modeled on a set of religious carvings in the village church and the design was symbolic. The winding pathways represented the journey of life. The wrong turnings and culs-de-sac symbolized the sins that people commit before death, obstacles on the way to paradise and heaven.

Quazen: An Amazing Puzzle: The Enigma of Mazes and Labyrinths.