Many people enquire of SOL of the whereabouts of leys near their homes. Contrary to popular belief there is no national register of leys. They are there to be found by you; should you want to. However, over the years we have has collected an archive of researched alignments which may or may not be classified as classic Watkinsian leys. In addition, Paul Devereux and Ian Thompson made a detailed study of a number of English leys which passed the much used statistical tests of the late 1970s and early 1980s. A selection from the UK and Europe is given in this section.
A SELECTION FROM THE ARCHIVE RECENT ADDITIONS
- Church path in Worcestershire
- Funeral Path at Wick, Worcestershire
- Burial Path at Feckenham
- A Welsh Coffin Trail **************
- A corpse road from De Laak to Echt
- Funeral path lore and superstitions
- Earthwork alignments in Michigan, USA
- LLynnau Cregennen Stone Row **************
- Straight Prehistoric Roads in Ireland
- Dartmoor Lych Way
- The fairy steps, Cumbria D
- A Spanish Ley
- A Funeral Path in West Cork
- Speyer Cathedral Ley
- The Zennor Churchway
- Sligo Fairy Road
- The Old Sarum Ley Consolidated Grid locations needed
- John Michell’s Old Sarum Ley **************
- Straight Walking
- Holy Hills In Northern Gaul
- The Rhonda Stonehenge
- Loanhead of Daviot
- Ley hunting in Gozo
- The Aston Cursus as a ley **************
- Stones as Ley Indicators
- The York Ley
- A Churchway Ley
- Belgian Alignment
- An Orkney Ley **************
- A Cotswold Ley
- Lepenski Vir: At the Iron Gate of the Daunube
- The Newgrange-Knowth Ley
- Timber Temple at Stanton Drew
- Corpse Road and Burial Right
- The Street of the Dead
- Tynwald Hill
- Church Walk
- Corpse roads
- Church road traditions
- The Lyke Wake Walk
- Tombland Alley
- Cumbrian corpse roads
- Hay strewing
- Costa Rican prehistoric paths
- German church lines
- Dutch corpse/death roads
- Astroarchaeology of Lundy
- St Hillaire death road
- Prehistoric Acoustics
A SELECTION FROM DEVEREUX
AND THOMPSON'S BOOKS:
- St Paul's cathedral ley - London **************
- Strand ley - London **************
- Long Man of Wilmington ley - Sussex **************
- Winchester ley - Hampshire **************
- Uffington ley Wiltshire/Oxfordshire **************
- Rollright ley- Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire **************
- Maiden Castle ley - Dorset **************
- Cerne Abbas ley - Dorset **************
- Men-an-Tol ley - Cornwall **************
- Glastonbury ley - Somerset **************
- Stonehenge ley - Wiltshire **************
- Old Sarum ley - Wiltshire **************
- Silbury Hill ley - Wiltshire **************
- Avebury ley - Wiltshire **************
- Walterstone ley - Hereford and Worcester/Gwent **********
- Montgomery ley - Powys/Shropshire **************
- Cambridge ley - Cambridgeshire **************
- Bradgate ley - Leicestershire **************
- Rudston ley - North Yorkshire **************
- Arbor Low ley - Derbyshire/Staffordshire **************
- Devil's Arrows ley - North Yorkshire **************
- Mayburgh ley - Cumbria **************
Records marked ************** have a graphic file attached to the bottom of the description page which can be downloaded as a zip file, and opened into Google Earth.
As per Bob Shave’s Newsletter #43 article, Alfred
Watkins’ 1st ley; Blackwardine, 30.7km, 140°/320°
Canterbury, Kent - 27km 60°/240°
Corfe Castle, Dorset - 15.5km 93°/273°
Weston Beacon, Devon - 3km 4°/184°
Oldbury, Hereford - 11.5km 109°/289°
Hereford Cathedral - 25.4km 170°/350°
Dinedor, Hereford - 21km 157°/337°
Malvern, Hereford - 17km 7.7°/187.7°
Stratford-on-Avon, Warks - 33.5km 38.7°/218.7°
Chester, Cheshire - 26km 156.7°/336.7°
Westley Waterless, Cambs - 24.8km 63.7°/243.7°
Quidenham, Norfolk - 26.4km 65.5°/245.5°
Oxton, Notts - 22.5km 16.5°/196.5°
Lastingham, Yorks - 20km 88°/268°
Guisborough, Cleveland - 5.6km 164°/344°
Goggleby, Cumbria - 7.7km 143.4°/323.4°
Hadrians Wall, N’umberland - 7km 37°/217°
Bamburgh, Northumberland - 31km 78.3°/258.3°
Belford, Northumberland - 7.2km 142°/322°
Saintbury, Cotswolds - 6km 177.4°/357.4°
As per Albano Chaves’ Newsletter #37 article,
Northern Portugal alignment, 24.4km, 165.8°/345.8°
An alignment through Sawley earthwork. ********
From Newsletter #47. 152km, 47°/227°
Links on to David Furlong’s plot of
the Michael and Mary alignment