Baden Powell maze

Be prepared to get yourself lost in what has been heralded as the most elaborate, challenging and best maze so far to spring up in the Devon countryside.The configuration of this latest creation in a 10-acre field of maize at Bickleigh, near Tiverton, would even have confused Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement.

It opens this weekend and has been designed by the Lee family who own the crop field a few miles from their home at Uppincott Farm, Shobrooke.

It is the eighth year Nick Lee has created a maze and they have attracted thousands of visitors and "maze masters" hell-bent on finding their way through more than two miles of twisting, winding paths to hopefully emerge victorious the other end.

The design is in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Scout movement and, as this aerial view shows, the likeness to Baden-Powell is uncanny and the Scout badge unmistakable.

Mr Lee admitted: "It's one of our finest so far and, I think, one our most intricate."

His maze mania has tempted get more people to get out into the countryside and is creations are billed as a Devon tourist attractions.

Mr Lee said other designs over the years had celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005; and last year the bi-centenary of the birth of Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

With help of daughter Katie, who designs the mazes, and two sons, the family has been busy over several months.