English: City of Troy. The only surviving example in the North Riding of this type of grass maze. It is located by a roadside in the Howardian Hills of Yorkshire, England, near the villages of Dalby, and Skewsby, close to Sheriff Hutton, a few miles north of York.
It is at
grid referenceSE6252871886 in Bonnygate Lane / High Lane. For some reason neither the Landranger map nor the Victorian Ordnance Survey map mark it. See the
Megalithic Portal.
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This is a scan of a transparency which I took in the 1970s. It has been slightly cleaned-up in Photoshop. It shows "The City of Troy", a roadside turf maze in the Howardian Hills of Yorkshire, England, near the villages of Dalby, and Skewsby, close to S
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