Itchen Abbas Labyrinth (destroyed)

Referenced in historical records but now destroyed, the Itchen Abbas labyrinth stood near the village in Hampshire's Itchen Valley — the same chalk stream landscape that contains the Winchester Mizmaze on St Catherine's Hill. Hampshire once contained the highest concentration of turf labyrinths in England, but agricultural improvement and neglect eliminated most by the 19th century. At 320.58° Giza bearing, Itchen Abbas sits on the chalk aquifer that feeds the River Itchen — one of England's purest chalk streams. The cluster of destroyed and surviving labyrinths in this valley suggests the Itchen corridor was a continuous ritual landscape, with labyrinths marking sacred points along the river's course through the Hampshire Downs.