Immortalise your company in history!
This is an incredible opportunity for your company or organisation to become an integral part of this iconic new landmark in the heart of North Yorkshire.
What you get out of this
- Include corporate logo in Maze information booklet and website
- Presence on the Maze website/Forestry England for 5 years
- Social Media coverage – during construction and 5 years after
- Annual exposure to:
- 50,000 people visit the Maze annually
- 4,000 people visit the Forestry England website
- Dependent on the financial contribution, we are keen to work with you on a marketing and communication strategy.
What we are looking for
- We are looking for interested individuals, families and companies who are interested in building a relationship with Forestry England for many years to come, by sponsoring a feature within the Dry Stone Wall Maze. Below is a description of how this could work. We are keen to discussing this further.
You’re in good company
Sponsor a Feature
Entrance Stones
Two of the standing stones that make up the entrance to the Maze, provide a welcome to the site. These stones are the first features all visitors will see and are the most prominent of all features.
Traditional Stone Step Styles
These are especially long through stones built into the walls so that they stick out at right angles and form a diagonal series of steps up one side of the wall and down the other. From the top of the wall visitors have an overview of the whole maze enabling them to consider possible alternative routes within the maze, immediately transporting themselves from one section to another, but not always moving forwards to the goal. The maze will contain dead ends and apparent dead ends, only on closer inspection can a stile be seen, when viewed from a distance they appear invisible. The stile offers a shortcut deeper into the maze.
Squeezer Style
Two large stones six feet high standing almost shoulder to shoulder built into the wall with the narrowest of gaps separating them, allowing people to pass but not sheep.
Secret Garden Door
A Secret Garden Door will guide you to enter the area around the most outer circle, where trees will be planted and visitors can dwell and enjoy the sunshine.
Bee Holes
These were built in garden walls specifically to house the old fashioned type of straw bee skep. In these niches the hives survive the winter. The bee boles will make good seats for weary visitors, out of the wind and well protected especially if their tops are built not with ordinary flat lintels but with an arch.
Trods
Trods can be found across the North York Moors and lead the way between communities in the moorland landscape. Incorporated in the centre of Maze is a circular path made of such trods. Heather will be encouraged to grow between and along the stone paths and walls.
Compass Stones
In the centre of the Maze, built into the inner circle are huge stones that can be used as seats or reference points. Each stone is located on a compass point, apart from the entrance to the inner circle, which is located at the south west compass point.
Available are:
- North
- North East
- North West
- South
- South East
- East
- West
The Phantom Gate
The walling up of gateways is a method adopted to prevent the wind blowing across exposed fields. Whenever cattle or sheep need to be moved through the gateway, the wall must be taken down and rebuilt. Elsewhere, the walling up of a gateway occurs when it is no longer used. Unlike the hedge mazes with their fixed routes and pathways, which remain the same from one year to the next, the walls within the drystone wall maze can be dismantled, removed and relocated. A visitor on returning to the maze may find that the route they remembered taking on a previous visit, which took them forward to the goal, has now changed. An entrance which had been there before has now vanished. A path which led to a dead end is now a path leading to the goal and is passed by.
The inclusion of phantom gates that can be changed, will ensure the maze remains challenging, compelling people to revisit the maze.
Smout Hole
A hole built into the wall large enough to let sheep through but too small for cattle, perfect for children to hide in and surprise their parents.
The North York Moors Association has already funded 1 of the 6 Smout Holes in the inner circle of the structure.
Standing Stones
Seventeen Standing Stones are available to sponsor and name. The stones will be given a female name of your choice which will be carved into the stone. Stones like these can be seen across the landscape of the North York Moors and indicate landmarks to identify a location.
1 Standing Stone has already been allocated
Features
We have a number of features constructed in the Dry Stone Wall Maze, each representing the North York Moors landscape in a different way with a slightly different cost/benefit.
Below is the list of features:
- Entrance Stones
- Stone Step Style
- Hole Stone
- Squeezer Style
- Secret Garden Door – entrance to the inner square
- Bee Hole
- False Door
- Centre Trods path
- Labyrinth Stone
- Boundary Marker
- Compass stones in the centre of the Maze (x7)
- Phantom Gate
- Kissing Gate
- Beware of the Bull Gate
- Quick Exit/Emergency exit
- Corner benches (x3 – 1 SOLD)
- Open Smout Hole (x2 – 1 SOLD)
- Closed Smout Hole (x3) Smout Hole – a large hole for sheep to pass through
- Smoot Hole (x3) Smoot Hole – a small hole for small animals and water to pass through
- Gate Stoop Standing stones (x18)
- Traditional gate posts for removable gate poles (x4)
- Gargoyles laughing, smirking faces along corridor leading to a dead end (x7)
- Poem Stone (SOLD)
- Through Stone (SOLD)
Contact us now to start your journey with us.
