Skylark Garden Centre in Wimblington creates huge Olympic maze

A Fenland garden centre has revealed the grand design of its maze - especially designed for the Olympics.

Located at Skylark Garden Centre in Wimblington, the “Maize Maze” has been created to back Team GB this year during the Paris Olympics.

Skylark has dedicated its 12-acre maze and fun yard to supporting the athletes by creating a pattern showing a lion holding an Olympic torch with “Go Team GB” written above it.

Visitors will be able to follow the three kilometres of pathways in the Team GB-themed Maize Maze to complete the Olympic-themed game and solve a challenge.

It took the events team a week of toiling in the fields to design and cut out the pathways in the maize field using a rotavator.

The paths are carefully cut out using GPS technology to plot the image to create a maze for visitors to explore throughout the summer.

The fun yard includes a new attraction this year which is to be announced soon, plus their pesky pigeon tractor ride, pedal go-kart track, jumping pillow, Water Wars, giant slide complex, pig racing, zip-wire plus much, much more.

Event manager Bart Woodbine said: “We’re so excited to be supporting Team GB during the 2024 Paris Olympics, we’re all big sports fans and this is a fitting tribute to all the hard work our Olympians will put in during their time in Paris this summer.”