Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmonds is on the Michael and Mary leyline and although it is not near us we were offered a chance to spend the day there and we thought it might be interesting so we took up the offer. Our aim was to dowse the leyline in the Abbey to see if we agreed with the findings in the famous book The Sun and The Serpent by Miller and Broadhurst, who dowsed the leyline, many years ago.

It was a cold but bright sunny day and we walked under the main gate and through some beautiful gardens to get to the ruins of the medieval Abbey where Broadhurst and Miller said the leylines ran.  We had difficulty picking up the energies, probably due to it being extremely busy with children on a school trip running around. We made our way to the main ruins and that at that point we were able to tune into the leylines. The pic shows that the new Cathedral has been built in direct line with the old Abbey on the usual East-West line.

The Sun and the Serpent said that the Mary and Michael line almost touch by the choir in the North-South transept and we found the Michael line and followed it to a small pillar, where strangely, instead of going onwards it went in a circle round this pillar!

We picked up the Mary line in the South transept and it followed an old wall round the abbey and took a winding course through the ruins, going past the choir to another ruined pillar, which it circled as the Michael line had done. The two pillars are close to one another but are not in "kissing" distance as stated in The Sun and Serpent!

We went back to the Michael line which we followed out of the ruins by St. Martins Chapel and then through the grounds to the Mostow gate which took us out into the town. We returned to the gardens where we sat and re-attuned into the Mary line, which we followed out through the main gate.

We followed Mary line across the square and up into Abbeygate Road where the energies were so strong we didn't need to use our dowsing rods. We finished our day here as we just wanted to dowse within the ruins.

In conclusion to our mission to compare our experience with that of Miller and Broadhurst, we agree that the Mary line goes up Abbeygate Road and that the Michael line runs through the Norman tower opposite the Mason's temple. An interesting detail of the tower are the two dragons on either side. (see pic below). However, we disagree with the two lines meeting within the ruins, we reckoned they were about 20-30 feet apart, although experience has taught us that leylines flow and so can move.

Bradwell Abbey

This might be our last post for a while and our apologies for not posting for several months, but we are currently working on a new blog called Orb Pics and also researching an exciting project involving leylines. Watch this space for further developments. We are also hoping to start up a 2012 group, so as you can see we have not been lazy but occupied elsewhere.

But back to Bradwell Abbey. A friend read an article on Bradwell Abbey and thought we might be interested and she drove us to Milton Keynes and into an industrial area. What a surprise when we came to a beautiful rural site set amidst factories and the main London railway line. A beautiful peaceful site on a beautiful sunny day.

Bradwell Abbey was a Benedictine Priory founded in the early 12th Century. Only the tithe barn, malthouse, bakehouse and the 14th century chapel of St. Mary remain.

On leaving the car park we passed by what used to be the malthouse and other old buildings to a large open area of grass. Strong energies immediately engulfed us. In front of us was a concreted area that had been used as a modern piggery, the energies were seeming to flow towards us making us think we could be in a leyline. We dowsed and picked up a very strong and very wide leyline .

Sian set this photo as her wallpaper on her computer and can pick up the energies just from looking at the photo; Jackie and others can pick them up too.



To the right of this area the old priory fishponds still remain.

Turning to our left we walked across the site with our dowsers to the Abbey foundations which have been marked out. We again found the energies to be very strong, indeed our friend who is not a dowser was able to feel them. We felt these particular energies were not coming from a leyline but from the Abbey itself. Sian did pick up the usual East -West leyline that we find in churches.





Jackie's rods took us to the tiny Chapel of St. Mary and she took this photo of it. Looking on the computer later she noticed an orb on it by the front window. Later we were given permission, with a guide from the visitor centre who opened up the chapel especially for us and we were allowed inside to look at the very rare medieval wall paintings. The chapel had been built round a statue of St. Mary that was originally in the Abbey and was thought to have healing properties. The wall paintings depicted pilgrims coming to be healed. Jackie and our friend could feel energies coming from where the statue had stood.

We intend to go back to see if the strong energies flowing over this site are anything to do with our new project, also to see if they are affected by the railway line and electricity pylons which run along the side of this site.

Hulcott

In the book The Sun and the Serpent, it mentions that the MM line runs through the tiny church in the tiny hamlet of Hulcott so we thought we would take a look.

The weather wasn’t so good; it was spitting and showery, overcast and cloudy. But that didn’t matter as All Saints, Hulcott is set in a very picturesque setting on the village green. In fact, it is one of the prettiest churches we have seen in our dowsing travels.

We found a very wide, strong, leyline, running east to west, which ran the complete width of the church. Rather interestingly, when we dowsed against the colour chart, I picked up yellow (Mary) and Jackie red (Michael). Whatever the reason for this, and we rarely differ on our findings, it confirms that this church is definitely part of the MM line

Edlesborough

On the same beautiful spring day as we visited Billington church (see blog post dated 17th May 2010) we also went to St Mary the Virgin Church at Edlesborough. It is a beautiful church, set up high on a hill and with yet another panoramic view over Dunstable Downs and Ivinghoe Beacon.

As we looked out over Ivinghoe Beacon we could see an old footpath going straight from the side of the church to the top of the Beacon, but the authorities have built a electricity pylon right on this path. (See 1st pic above) This raises the question – does this lower the energies on the leyline and did someone “in the know” do this deliberately? Anyone who has read the book “PowerPoints” by Robin Heath might be suspicious! Whatever the reason, it really spoils the view, unfortunately.

Back to the dowsing. We found 2 leylines, one going east to west, which is the normal one we find in a church and the other South West to North East and is direct line with the Beacon. The latter resonated mostly yellow, on our colour chart, with a lot of blue and Jackie also picked up a bit of red. Yellow and red being MM line and blue is our local leyline which we found at Grove and Billington. So these places are all connected.

We also found a narrow leyline going down the side of the church, which resonated gray on our colour chart and is particular to that church but has no bearing on our research, but is still of interest if you wanted to dowse there yourselves.

Standing in the grounds looking towards Billington which we had visited earlier in the day, it is interesting to note that Leighton Buzzard’s spire is right behind it although hidden. This is extremely interesting because this means that you could draw a straight line through all 3 churches. Fascinating.

A couple of observations: Although we found 2 main leylines here the energies at this church are nowhere near as strong as at Billington and the lines were stranded today. Perhaps, as it was a really warm day, the lines metaphorically took off their winter coats and spread themselves out to sunbathe in the warmth! Perhaps when it is cold, the strands huddle together to keep warm! A whimsical thought, but we feel it needs more research all the same. We intend to keep a weather/stranding note in future.

Billington

It was a lovely sunny day when we arrived at St. Michaels Church, Billington. Please see pics at top of post We first of all stopped to look at the stunning view by the gate overlooking the valley and towards Grove.

Please see the movie above to get an idea of what it looked like.

In the far distance you can make out the spire of

All Saints Church in Leighton Buzzard

and the

lock-keepers cottage at Grove.

We moved into the churchyard and started to dowse by the east-west end of the church looking towards Grove, where we picked up a leyline, which was stranded at the edges, but the main bulk of it was the exact width of the church. We dowsed the line to the colour chart independently of each other and we both found the line resonated to blue and yellow. We were really pleased because that meant it was definitely connected to the ‘blue’ leyline we had found at Grove (please see blog dated May 1st 2010) – and also proving they were both part of the Mary (MM) line. This leyline also physically pointed towards Grove.

We moved to the main church door overlooking Dunstable Downs and our rods pointed exactly straight to Ivinghoe Beacon which is the main Michael Mary line.

Our conclusions: Billington Church is connected directly to Ivinghoe and Grove. So, we have a local leyline which resonates to blue and we think it is a tributary coming off the MM line (yellow) and paying us a visit from Ivinghoe Beacon.

2nd Visit to Grove

On Monday 19 April we once again set out to dowse the area around Grove. Although it was slightly hazy from the Icelandic Volcano ash cloud, the sun was getting through and we felt warm as we walked along the canal path. We climbed over the stile and went across the field, full of sheep with their lambs and it really felt like spring at last!

We crossed the footbridge and were soon on the site of the old monastery fish ponds. We had been here before (please see entry 1st July 2008 for the details). We both felt our chests tighten as the energies of the area flowed around us. We dowsed for ley lines and picked up three but only two were important. We were interested in finding out if we were near a node point. Unfortunately, because this field is enclosed with fencing and barbed wire, we were unable to follow the main leyline directly, instead, guided by our rods, followed a marked path across the field, over another very small bridge, continued along the path about 200yds and came out by the quarry.

Last year this ground had been churned up by the heavy plant vehicles and was very muddy but today it was now dry and covered with the seedy heads of coltsfoot and other ground plants and a Skylark was singing above us, and, to make it perfect, ahead of us was our beautiful old Oak tree. It was lovely to see it again and we were very pleased when we discovered that Jackie’s crystal offering that we had made last year was still there. Although old and many branches now dead there were still signs of this year's new growth.

The energies in this area are, literally, breathtaking. Reading the history of Grove (Jackie’s specialist subject!) this area was well known for its meeting point of several ley lines. These 'node' points hold the energies of all the crossing ley lines. Sian did a “helicopter” dowsing and the rods pointed to Ivinghoe Beacon, Billington Church, St Michael’s Church Grove and All Saints’ Church. We again picked up our two major ley lines. One ran across from All Saints to Ivinghoe Beacon and resonated to the colour Yellow; the other ran from Billington Church to St Michaels Church at Grove and resonated to blue. The latter possibly went on to the tree circle (See our entry dated 5th Nov 2008). Jackie was rather disappointed to find that the All Saints to Ivinghoe Beacon resonated to yellow as this signified it was part of the Mary Line as she felt this was part of the St Michael Line, as this has resonated to Red in the past. (But do the ley lines resonant with different colours on different days depending on weather, strength of the energy etc. Something we may need to check each time we go dowsing.) We felt this meeting point (node point might have been very near the site of the old hamlet of Grovebury and Grovebury Priory.

Sian took a panoramic photo from where we stood.She started facing the magnificent spire of All Saints, in Leighton. She moved around across thenew buildings of the housing estates and up to Billington, where we could see St Michaels Church on the top of the hill. Then on to see the outline of the Downs in the distance, on to the Beacon, with the tower of St Mary's Church at Edlesborough in the fore ground. Then round to St Michael's church Grove and in the distance Wing Hill, then back to All Saints. The hills surrounded us and we were standing in the flat valley bottom that covers several miles. The ancient energies of Ivinghoe Beacon seem to sweep down and wash the whole area. What a special area this is, and we wondered what the magnificent oak tree had seen over the years. Perhaps Nuns and monks had sat under its branches.

We plan to visit Billington, Edlesborough, Ivinghoe, Stanbridge, Tilsworth and Eggington churches to see if the blue leyline and also the other we picked up flow through them and confirm what we had found today. We were now starting to feel hungry and decided to go back for lunch. This however was delayed as Sian, AGAIN, lost her rods (again please see entry for 5th November 2008). Rather wearily, we made our way back to the oak tree, and Jackie's rods once again came to the rescue and found Sian’s rods on the ground. I do wish she would look after her things!! Sian here – I’m soo sorry Jackie – What a complete idiot I am. But at least it shows how utterly brilliant you are finding lost things with your dowsers. Is that enough grovelling?!!!

2nd Visit to Holy well

Looking through a book on the history of Leighton Buzzard we noticed an article on the Old Linslade Holy Well, complete with a hand-drawn map by Frederick Gurney in 1915 showing the place where he thought the Holy Well was sited. Our interest was piqued because we had previously dowsed there before and we were pretty sure that we had found the site to our satisfaction, but Mr Gurney’s site, according to his map, was very different to ours. (Please see our previous blog dated 18.6.08 for details of that field trip.) His site was on opposite side of the Grand Union Canal and the bridge.

We were very intrigued though, so off we went on a beautiful spring morning to follow in Mr Gurney’s footsteps and re-dowse the area to see if we could agree with his findings. We were careful at all times to keep an open mind and not to prejudice our findings in favour of ourselves. Mr Gurney, as far as we know, was not a dowser, but at a certain spot he had found an Edward III coin (12th Century) and assumed that this had been the site of the Holy Well.

We easily found the spot from his directions on the map. It was very like a pirate treasure map – 40 paces here – 80 paces there etc. The area hadn’t really changed that much but, unfortunately, our dowsing found absolutely nothing. We continued to dowse in different directions but our rods continually pointed back to our original site in the reed beds north of Old Linslade church, the other side of the bridge

The photo at the top of the page (please click to see enlarged photo) shows how far we were from St Mary’s Church, Old Linslade. We are not saying Mr Gurney was wrong, but by using our dowsing rods we think we may bring a more scientific approach to this conundrum. Just because he found an old coin in a certain spot doesn’t mean that the Holy Well must have been there. Old Linslade in the Middle Ages was a thriving community and the coin could have been dropped anywhere.

We still say that we were correct on our first visit (and we are usually right!!).

2nd Visit to Dunstable Priory

Our second visit was quite different. We wanted to follow the leyline through the grounds and to photograph things we missed last time. (And to buy some brochures which we were too mean to pay for last time!) We also wanted to check once and for all our result as to whether it was a Mary or Michael line. We also wanted to check further the two modern (1972) interesting stained glass windows over the west door.

To our surprise the atmosphere was much lighter on this visit. There had obviously been a wedding because there were beautiful flowers everywhere. Had these two things had an effect on the energies in the church? This is an interesting thought. Can we change vibrations with emotions? Does happiness affect the leys? Can such a simple thing as flowers raise vibrations? All interesting questions.

The 1972 stained glass west windows showed two figures. The man in the red window is King Henry I who founded the Priory. We were most amused to see that he was sitting directly on top of an Eleanor Cross (his wife). this must be most uncomfortable!!! The 'H' on the yellow window no doubt stands for Henry but we have no idea about the 'C'. Could Thomas Cranmer be the man carrying his head? He annulled Henry VIII’s marriage at Dunstable but later he lost favour and was executed. Just a thought.

We read the brochure about the stained glass window, and we were amazed to find the red window has green lines behind Henry representing the crossing of the Icknield Way and Watling Street. (You can just see it at the bottom of the window in pic above). This, of course, is the path of the MM line. Amazing to think that leylines are represented in a church. Perhaps proof that they exert some sort of pull or energy even if you are not aware of it.

Checking the leyline again, it was very strong going up the centre aisle again, but was stranded at the edges, particularly near the altar.
　
We made our way outside to explore the grounds. By the East end of the church we found the leyline to be even wider than inside. It seemed to stretch the whole width of the church and was again very stranded. However, the energies seemed exceedingly strong and we both felt tightness in our chests, A sign we both feel when energies are strong. Jackie then made an amazing discovery that in fact the leyline encompassed most of the grounds behind the church. Later on that day looking at a map, much to our amazement (and we certainly didn’t know it at the time,) we found the Icknield Way actually runs along through the grounds and along the side of the church. We high fived!

Returning to the front west door we dowsed the line and followed it through the archway leading to the priory grounds and it made a right turn to Priory House (see pic). Priory House (for those that are interested in symbology it is interesting to note that it is No 33!) was a travellers resting inn right on the crossroads of Icknield Way and Watling Street. Yes – them again. It is worth a visit to see the beautiful stone vaulted ceilings, Then the line went across Watling Street and up the side of the Methodist church. This path leads directly to Friars Field. We will pick the leyline up next time.
　

Dunstable First Visit

Dunstable First Visit

Our apologies for not posting for a while. This is mostly due to the awful snowy weather we have been having. We haven’t been idle though. We have been researching and also taking orb photos. Please watch this space as we are working towards an orb website and we are even hoping to offer photos and cards for sale. Here is a sneak preview of one or rather two.
We have decided to take our dowsing a bit further afield and paid a couple of visits in January, (in the extreme cold and sleet) to Dunstable, mostly to the church there called Dunstable Priory.
We had read in the Sun and the Serpent that the famous Michael and Mary leyline runs through the main door of Dunstable Priory, so thought we would dowse it ourselves and see what we thought. The Priory has a very wide West door with multiple arches. The carvings have eroded away so we were unable to establish whether were any anomalous sculptures of gargoyles and skulls such as Leighton Buzzard or Notre Dame in Paris. There weren’t any gargoyles at all on the entire building as far as we could see. On our first we found the inside to be dark and gloomy. It didn’t seem to have nice vibrations. This is probably due to its history and the original front door, with its bullet marks from when the Royalists attacked the Priory in 1644, is testimony to this. Those of you who are interested I am sure you can find further information on the Internet.

Back to the dowsing. We dowsed inside the church and we both found there was a definite leyline going East to West, and out through the church through the main west gate and through the altar. We both, separately, found the leyline to be very wide and was the width of the archway, not just the door. Jackie found a faint one going North to South by the choir stalls but Sian couldn’t pick that up at all. We checked this wide, strong energy line against our colour vibration chart, again separately, and we both dowsed it as yellow, which means it was a Mary line. This was not what we were expecting as The Sun and the Serpent Book says the priory was built on a Michael line! I’m afraid we beg to differ at this point.