By car: The palace is located on the A and is well signposted from all the major local roads. From the M25 take either exit 10 on to the A or exit 12 on to the A The palace is also accessible via the A3 and then the A The journey takes only 35 minutes and the palace is a 2-minute walk across the bridge from the station.
By bus: Bus routes: , , , , , , R68, , , Summer Sundays only. For further information visit www. Car parking Green car park - pay and display Charges from Skip To Main Content. Follow Us Instagram Facebook Twitter. My Planner To build your own Itinerary, click to add an item to your Itinerary basket. Already saved an Itinerary? Enewsletter Sign Up. Site Search. This, in fact, was designed and planted early in the present century in order to show visitors a style of formal gardening that was fashionable during the reigns of Elizabeth I and her successor, James I.
Close by is the famous Great Vine under glass. Planted in the middle of the 18th century, this remarkable vine continues to produce an average of to pounds of black Hamburg grapes each year, which are sold to the public at the end of August or the beginning of September. One of the most popular attractions on the grounds is the triangular maze.
This is sited in a corner near the Lion Gates, north of the palace. Mazes were a favourite feature of great landscape gardens in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Hampton Court maze was planted in , the last year of Queen Anne's reign, by the Royal Gardener, Henry Wise.
It has delighted millions of visitors since the palace was first opened to the public early in the last century. The hedges dividing the paths of the maze were originally of hornbeam. Today they are mainly yew and privet, close-clipped and standing six feet high. In the early days, visitors venturing into the maze might be lost there for hours before their cries were heard and they were led out.
No such predicament can occur nowadays with a keeper watching over the labyrinth from a high platform giving an overall view. With great skill or luck, the centre can be reached in only five minutes, though the way out often proves less easy.
But whether you succeed or fail in solving the secret of the maze, it is one of the many delights of visiting this romantic Royal palace. Read more: Take a virtual tour of Britains top tourist attractions during quarantine. Toggle navigation. Read more. Subscribe here to receive British Heritage Travel's print magazine!
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The maze is in 60 acres 0. It has been described by many authors, including Defoe, and the humorist Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote inThree Men in a Boat:. It's absurd to call it a maze. You keep on taking the first turning to the right. We'll just walk round for ten minutes, and then go and get some lunch.
Harris kept on turning to the right, but it seemed a long way, and his cousin said he supposed it was a very big maze. Jerome exaggerates the hazards of the maze. The maze has relatively few places at which the path forks and at all but one fork in Jerome's time the wrong choice led to a dead end at the end of a short corridor.
There are many larger and more elaborate mazes nowadays. Recently, three new forking places not shown on the plan displayed just outside the entrance have introduced more possibilities of walking closed loops within the maze. The maze can still, as Harris stated, be threaded from entrance to centre and back by the method of always remaining in contact with the wall on one's right.
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