In addition to a safari, Longleat Park is home to the longest plant labyrinth in the world
The Longleat labyrinth ( Longleat Hedge Maze ) is located in the garden of the residence of the 7th Marquis de Bath in Longleat, located next to the village of Horningsham and near the city of Warminster in England. Designed and built in 1975, the labyrinth road has a length of 2.72 km, extended over 1.5 hectare and consists of 16,000 English ifs. He is the longest vegetable labyrinth in the world .
The labyrinth is made of 2.5-metre high hedges that wind around a huge estate called “Longleat House” that hosts some unusual elements, including one safari park filled with over 500 exotic animals. This place was also the first safari park (in 1966) outside the African continent that could cross by car. The labyrinth consists of several deadlocks and multiple paths punctuated by six raised bridges. The good exit is on a central observation tower.
Keep the hedges carved more than a month to a team of six gardeners equipped with motor hedges. This task is repeated every six months. But gathering the falls of a total of about 8 km of hedges by hand is only the youngest of gardeners’ worries... Don't get lost is the real challenge, especially for new recruits.
The labyrinth is so complex that it can take more than an hour and a half to only walk through. In the event of an emergency, the labyrinth has several directional panels Lift if lost ("Remove if Lost") for those who are unable to find the exit. It has already happened that some visitors have cheated by retrieving the exit of the labyrinth using their smartphones to view a maze aerial view on Google Maps.
La Longleat House – geographorguk – Mike Searle
Photo sources : AP
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