Walls of Troy, Holderness

Once located between Marfleet and Paull on the Holderness coast of East Yorkshire, the Walls of Troy was remarkable for its unique dodecagonal (12-sided) layout — found in no other documented English labyrinth. Now destroyed, it was one of several 'Troy Town' labyrinths in England whose name connects them to the Trojan myth cycle and, through it, to the Cretan labyrinth tradition. At 325.41° Giza bearing, the site overlooked the Humber estuary — the same tidal energy interface as Julian's Bower at Alkborough. Holderness is one of Europe's fastest-eroding coastlines, losing an average of 2 meters per year to the North Sea, which may have contributed to the labyrinth's destruction along with the landscape that once surrounded it.