Windmill Path Revisited

After dowsing the monastry walls and discovering several instances of ghostly goings-on, we decided to concentrate on Windmill Path. Please see photo above left.

So on the evening of 14th April 2009 we re-traced our steps down the alley way along the White House into Windmill Path but with our cameras this time. We didn't feel we picked up very much dowsing, but were amazed when the photos were put on the computer and we were able to zoom in. Photo on the left is before enlargement and even though you can't see them all on this small screen, there was one large orb plus many smaller ones.

The picture top of the page right is a close up of the large green orb. We hope to publish more photos of this expedition at a later date.

Now what do we do next!

Our curiosity piqued by our last outing, after lots of research in our local library of historical books and records and very old maps, we discovered that Leighton Buzzard had another windmill at Grove. Apparently, the Leighton Buzzard windmill had been built because the local townspeople found it too far to walk to Grove. We also found in our research that there was another abbey or priory at Grove as well. This was fascinating and we were amazed that, from one tentative outing as a bit of a laugh, we were in a full blown search to find not one but two priories and, what's more, two windmills to boot. We could see a whole summer of adventures ahead.

Sian's husband had worked at the council offices in The White House and vaguely remembered a small hidden path that led nowhere in the grounds. One of the old maps showed this path. So that is where we opted to go next.

We weren't sure whether we were allowed in the grounds but discovered that houses had been built on the site and it was open to the public; so in we walked.

We didn't need our dowsing tools. There, right at the back of the grounds, was a path and it was precisely parallel to the old walls. And even more excitingly, the path came to a stop at secret gate set into the old walls. This was probably where the monks walked. The gate was in a direct line to the town centre so perhaps they used this gate to leave and enter the monastery. We then walked back outside to see if we could see where the secret door was and found that it had been concreted in and no-one could possibly have guessed it was there.

We took our dowsing tools once again down Windmill Path. Not so nervously this time and asked them to show us where the Windmill had been. Quite independently from each other, we were directed to spot at the far end, near to Beaudesert and set a little way in, on the right, from the path. We were to be vindicated in our conclusions - but that is for another entry on another day!

So, to finish for this part of the town, we came to the conclusion that the entitites that people had been seeing were probably the energies left behind from the townspeople going to and from the windmill and monks going into town and back again from the monastery.

Old monastery walls

Our interest was aroused by stories we had heard about an old monastery which used to be on the land now occupied by The White House. We had been told about the old walls that still stood there and had heard, from a couple of sources from people who lived either end of these walls, that there were some strange "goings on" around that area. Jackie knew that area so we took our dowsing rods and "bobber" and off we went. I have to say we did feel a bit on the silly side - every time someone near we hurriedly put away our dowsing tools!!

What we found was fascinating. Down one side of the walls there was a very wide path which Jackie "felt" she had been there before. Perhaps when she was a child, she definitely hadn't been there before in her adult lifetime. We both had a "flash", a feeling, that we saw a woman walking along this path - in both our visions she was wearing dark clothing, long black or dark gray wide skirt, back or dark gray top with white collar and white apron with a white bonnet. Quite extraordinary that we both felt the same thing. This wide path we discovered was called Windmill Path and, after research in the local library, we discovered that the main windmill in Leighton Buzzard was at the end of this path.

Anyway back to the old walls. We found a Yew tree which suggests there might have been a church on the site. We found archways and a strange curve in the wall. We discovered part of the old wall in the car park of what is now the Catholic Church. Churches are invariably built on previous church sites, going way back into ancient and pre-christian times. We were pretty convinced that these walls were, in fact, a religious site. We also thought that the phenomena that our two sources had been seeing, might have been the townspeople going to and fro the windmill. In spite of some funny looks we were determined to come back and see if we could find the energies of the lost windmill and to explore inside the walls.