Famous Places Around the World. By Abril Tzab

 Hampton court palace

Schedule: 10:00 to 17:30.

Address: Hampton Ct Way, Molesey, East Molesey KT8 9AU, United Kingdom.

People can go to the maze, which has been immortalized in popular fiction from the

The Victorian novel “Three Men in a Boat”, by Jerome K. Jerome!

By the 1530s, Henry VIII’s Hampton Court was a palace, a hotel, a theatre, and a vast

leisure complex. The King used it to demonstrate magnificence and power in

every possible way, through lavish banquets, extravagant court life, and fabulously

expensive art!

The reason this place is famous is that when Henry VIII finished his building

program in around 1540, Hampton Court was the most modern, sophisticated, and 

magnificent palace in England. 

At some point during Henry VIII’s reign, all six of Henry’s wives visited Hampton Court and

most had new and lavish lodgings.

The Maze

The Hampton Court Palace Maze is the UK's oldest surviving hedge

maze. Commissioned around 1700 by William III, it covers a third of an

acre and is known for confusing and intriguing visitors with its many

twists, turns, and dead ends. On average, it takes 20 minutes to reach

the centre.

The Maze was designed by George London and Henry Wise and is

trapezoid in shape. Originally planted using hornbeam, it was later

replanted using yew. It is referred to as a multicursal or puzzle maze. 

Before the creation of the Hampton Court Maze, unicursal or single-path 

mazes were the most popular form of maze in the UK. 

Unlike the puzzle maze, the single-path maze has one path, usually in a spiral

shape, winding to a centre point.