On the right lines
As he gazed at the massive Norman bell tower in Beccles, my husband, Barry, said, âItâs very Michael.â It dominates the skyline and stands on raised ground next to St Michaelâs Church, overlooking the River Waveney.
We were on a quest to visit some of the ancient sites and churches along the St Michael Line, which crosses England, travelling eastwards from St Michaelâs Mount in Cornwall to Hopton-on-Sea in Norfolk. Itâs a recognised pilgrim route that was tracked in the late 1980s by dowsers, Paul Broadhurst and Hamish Miller. Their book, The Sun and the Serpent, describes the Michael and Mary energy lines that weave across the country close to this line.
Many churches on raised ground are dedicated to St Michael and the dowsers discovered those on lower ground, near old holy wells and watery places, are dedicated to St Mary. Both lines cross and meet at significant ancient sites.
We set off, inquisitive as to what we might discover for ourselves.
Our starting point was Glastonbury. The tor dominates the surrounding countryside, topped by the tower of St Michael. The original wooden church was destroyed by an earthquake in 1275 and replaced by a stone church in the fourteenth century.
The tower â all that remains â sits above the labyrinthine energy lines detected by Broadhurst and Miller, who discovered that
