Ley Lines: Ancient ‘Earth Energy’ Pathways Or Complete Fiction?

Written by Andy Rowlands on September 7, 2022. Posted in Current News

I first heard about Ley Lines on a fictional tv series as a child back in the early 70s, the name of which escapes me. I asked Dad what they were and he didn’t know.

Later, in the 80s, I visited almost all of the neolithic monuments on Salisbury Plain and, other ancient sites, several times. In the days before the internet and satnav’s, many people used Ordnance Survey maps to navigate.

Later still, I saw a documentary about Ley Lines, and one of the things I remember was it saying to qualify as a possible Ley Line, you need a minimum of three sites lining up in a straight line within ten miles.

Dad watched the documentary as well, but dismissed it as ‘new-age nonsense’.

Some time after this I happened to be thinking about it, and wondered if I could find a way to see if the three sites in ten miles could be verified. Then I remembered my OS maps.

I dug them out and started marking old sites such as neolithic monuments, old churches, early castles and just in case it was relevant, villages that were likely to have retained the ‘village green’, traditional meeting places.

Once I had marked all the sites I could find, I stuck coloured pins in each one to see what alignments, if any, might appear, and used red sewing thread to join the pins to make them stand out.

Being perhaps over-enthusiastic, I found more ‘alignments’ than were really there, so after removing things like castles, which were at best only marginally aligned, I was left with more likely alignments.

Once I had established ‘certain’ alignments, I removed the pins and drew red lines on the maps. Where lines appeared to be heading for the edges of the maps, I carefully placed the next map to see if the lines extended further.

I did this with all the nine OS maps I had, and found quite a few alignments. One in particular ran across three maps, a distance of over 50 miles, with multiple sites.

I was surprised to find the majority of alignments crossed at neolithic and very ancient sites and the village of Warminster on the western edge of Salisbury Plain. At that time, back in the 90s, I was unaware of the ‘fame’ of Warminster, but discovered it is, or was at the time, the ‘UFO capital’ of England, with more sightings than anywhere else in England.

Coincidence? I have no idea.

The image below shows the major Ley Lines across England.

One of the longest known Ley Lines in the UK is known as the Michael Line, and stretches from St Michael’s Mount at the tip of Cornwall, to the village of Hopton on the coast of East Anglia in Norfolk, a distance of almost 450 miles.

Image: Kate Shrewsday

However, this is beaten by quite a large margin by the Belinus Line, which goes from Inverhope in Scotland through Perth, Carlisle, Manchester, Shugborough, Alderley Edge, Birmingham’s Bull Ring shopping centre (site of a Bronze Age henge), The Rollright Stones, The Uffington White Horse, The Seven Barrows, Winchester, to end at Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight.

Image: Wessex Wanderings

It is interesting to note one of the largest concentrations of crossing Ley Lines is at the Rollright Stones (marked ‘2’ on the green map above), a neolithic monument on the Oxfordshire / Warwickshire border, essentially right at the geographic centre of England. The Rollrights (pictured below) are considered the oldest known neolithic monuments in the UK.

Is this significant? I do not know.

Image: Knightcote Farm Cottages

In quite a few cases, the terrain makes it impossible to see one site from another, especially considering at the time most of these sites were erected, the country was covered in large forests, so this raises the question how did they get them lined up, unless there was something guiding the placement of the sites?

Maybe there is something to this after all.

Another documentary I saw was about how disconnected we now are from nature, with our reliance on technology. The people interviewed opined that in ancient times, Man was probably far more in tune with the natural world, and may have had psychic abilities we have now lost, such as second sight, ESP, telepathy and related phenomena.

If that were so, it is possible they could sense something we now cannot, and sited their monuments to mark places where the ‘lines of force’ were concentrated where they crossed.

There are also the Telluric Currents; a weak but measurable electric field running through the Earth itself, and some people have told of mild electric shocks from touching neolithic stones.

Taken further, this could mean there is some truth in the Gaia hypothesis; where the Earth is a living entity. After all, all life originated in the primordial oceans. I’m not saying this is what I believe, but it is an interesting concept.

The appearance of an article a few days ago here prompted me to write this essay.

Sadly, when I moved into my current house in 1999, the OS maps were either misplaced or thrown out, as I now cannot find them. I fully realise this will make some readers scoff, but that is a chance I am more than happy to take.

A valuable reference work on Ley Lines is Alfred Watkin’s The Old Straight Track, copies of which can still be found online.

Header image: Hampshire Chronicle

About the author: Andy Rowlands is a university graduate in space science and British Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the new climate science book, ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘

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