Hampton Court Maze
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Hampton Court Maze is a hedge maze at Hampton Court Palace and the oldest surviving hedge maze in Britain.<ref name="hrp">Template:Cite web</ref>
Commissioned by King William III, the maze, which is about one-third of an acre, is planted in a trapezoid shape and was designed by George London and Henry Wise.<ref name="hrp"/> It was located in the "wilderness" part of the gardens of the palace, of which it is now the only surviving part.<ref name=Bounford>Julie E. Bounford & Trevor Bounford, The Curious History of Mazes: 4,000 Years of Fascinating Twists and Turns with Over 100 Intriguing Puzzles to Solve (Wellfleet, 2018), p. 106.</ref><ref>RHS Garden Finder 2006-2007: More Than 1,000 Gardens to Visit and Enjoy (ed. Charles Quest-Ritson: Think, 2006).</ref> Planted between 1689 and 1695, the maze is not particularly difficult,<ref name=Bounford/> taking about 20 minutes for a person to make their way to the middle.<ref name="hrp"/> It was originally planted in hornbeam, later replaced by yew.<ref name="hrp"/>
Psychologist Edmund Sanford took inspiration from the Hampton Court Maze in his idea to create mazes for laboratory rats to study learning.<ref>C. James Goodwin, Research In Psychology: Methods and Design (Wiley: 2010), p. 110.</ref><ref>C. James Goodwin, A History of Modern Psychology (Wiley, 2015), p. 159.</ref> The maze is referenced in some works of literature, including humorist Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889) and Carol Shields' Larry's Party (1997),<ref name=Bounford/> and is referenced in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Three Men, a Woman and a Baby".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It also serves as the inspiration for the maze at Mayer's Nest in Ian Martin's "Nightmare Nest" broadcast for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1975.