The Mizmaze at Leigh by Katherine Barker
Originally published in Caerdroia 23 (1990), p.9-14
The Mizmaze at Leigh in Dorset, England (O.S. ref: ST 620082) belongs to a class of historic monument known as a turf maze. Formerly well represented in England, only a few are now maintained in good order. By definition a turf maze is an ephemeral feature in the landscape and without regular attention is easily lost. This note aims to bring to wider notice three little known pictorial representations of the site at Leigh, the first depicted on the Issac Taylor Map of Dorset (1705), the second on Bayly’s Map of Dorset (1773) and the third, the earliest and probably most important, to be found on an Elizabethan map of the manors of north Dorset dated to between 1569 and 1574. Assembling these has afforded an opportunity to consider what little is at present known of the history of the site.
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