WIRRAL’S Brimstage Maize Maze is open for business again.

Now a well-established summer time treat, this year’s maize maze has been constructed around a Lost in Space theme, in response to popular demand and to tie-in with the 40th anniversary of the moon landings.

Clare Gregory, of Gregorys’ Farm, designed and created the 2009 effort.

She said: “I don’t think there’s anybody starving to death in there.

“Every group that goes in gets a flag and we have staff stood on the bridge to keep a look-out.

“If anybody wants rescuing, stay still, stick the flag up and somebody will come and help.”

The seven-acre maze, inset, below, is cut into a field of 980,000 individual maize crops, each standing above six foot so even the tallest among us won’t have an advantage.

In-deed, Clare says it’s often child-ren who are most successful.

She said: “Kids seem to have more of a head for it than adults.

“The adults tend to put too much thought into it, while the kids seem to have better spacial awareness.”

The maze has been recreated each year for six years, and Clare’s family, who took charge in 2005, have maze-building pedigree.

She said: “We used to farm in Tarporley and had a maze there until we moved.

“Finding the right farm was the priority but the maze matched up as well.”