The entrance path to the Crystal Palace mazeThe entrance path to the Crystal Palace mazeThe entrance path to the Crystal Palace mazeThe entrance path to the Crystal Palace mazeThe entrance path to the Crystal Palace mazeThe entrance path to the Crystal Palace mazeThe entrance path to the Crystal Palace mazeThe entrance path to the Crystal Palace mazeThe entrance path to the Crystal Palace maze

Crystal Palace Maze

Crystal Palace Maze

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The park’s Maze is one of the largest in the country, with a diameter of 49 metres. It has been bewildering and entertaining visitors since the 1870s.

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The central artwork is two tons of black and white granite, with a circumference of 9m.

More than 6,000 members of Girlguiding UK attended the launch of the refurbished maze.

Did you know you can hire the Maze for your event?

Photo: © sludgegulper CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Consisting of towering hedgerows and a confounding network of pathways, the Maze is free and open to all. It was completely redesigned and renovated to mark the launch of Girlguiding’s Centenary celebrations in 2009.

The Park has special significance to Girlguiding. On 4 September 1909, it was the location of the first Scout Rally, which a small group of girls attended. They approached Lord Robert Baden-Powell, and asked that he set up ‘something for the girls’. As a result, Lord Baden-Powell founded the ‘Girl Guides’ with 6,000 girls registering in 1910. Accordingly, Girlguiding UK chose to commission the renovation of the Maze in its Centenary year, drawing on these strong historical links.

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Amazing facts

The central artwork is two tons of black and white granite, with a circumference of 9m.

More than 6,000 members of Girlguiding UK attended the launch of the refurbished maze.

Did you know you can hire the Maze for your event?

Photo: © sludgegulper CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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The maze is in the north section of the park and is open during the opening hours of the park.

As part of the refurbishment of the Maze and surrounding landscaping, artists Brook & Black (Leora Brook & Tiffany Black) were chosen to design an interactive artwork to appeal to all ages, under a partnership between Girlguiding UK, the London Development Agency and the London Borough of Bromley.

You can read more about the Maze’s history – and find your way around it with a map, if you’re short on time – on a sign outside the maze.

The paved, central enclosure of Crystal Palace maze

The artwork is located both within the restored hedge maze and at the central arrival point, and incorporates brass plaques (for brass rubbings of flora and fauna images), small stone monoliths with engraved designs located in the hedge pathways, a nine-metre wide floor artwork mapping the maze, and granite seating set within the surrounding landscaping.

Photo: © Brook & Black

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