Dorset Museums- Blandford Museum

As all local museums Blandsford's is an idiosyncratic collection run by enthusiastic volunteers. It has a number of items pertaining to the Great Fire of Blandford and to the town's Georgian benefactor, John Bastard. Apart from rebuilding the town he took a keen interest in his local surroundings. Here  he records the remains of a Mizmaze or turf maze.

'This labyrinth vulgarly called mizmase was on the North side of the road betwixt Blandford and Pimperne but is now Annialated.
Supposed to be the work of the Munks of Old But to keep the world in ignorance they said itt was the work of Faierys whom used to dance there'

Mizmazes go back to the dawn of history and are wreathed in legend, though up until the 18th C they were still regularly maintained by villagers. They have all but disappeared from Dorset though there are some scant remains at Leigh which was recorded as  being used as a witches coven. Another maze was to be found at Troytown which took its name from the Old English for a maze -  caertroi