Wholistic Arts

Beauchief Abbey, near Sheffield A nice day to start with but later turned a bit wet. We had read a book 'Atlas of Magical Britain', in it was Beauchief Abbey, near Sheffield, that had two leylines intersecting by it. The murder of St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29th December 1170 AD brought about the founding of the Abbey. Robert Fitzranulph, Lord of Alfreton, was said to have felt remorse at Thomas a Becket’s murder and gave land, sealing a charter granting the establishment of an Abbey at Beauchief. We found three leylines! Two of them both headed Northwards at each side of the Abbey (the West Tower is the only remaining part of the original) and we managed to find the third after intense investigation. This was the one that went North-eastward to Norton. Where we later investigated the church, which was founded in 1170 and what looked like a Saxon cross used as a war memorial. The first leyline we found was 23 paces, as usual, heading North-South and can be ...

Chan de Arquiña, Pontevedra We headed out in the afternoon - it had been raining heavily all morning, but by afternoon it was cheering up a bit. We couldn't find any useful directions on how to get there, and it doesn't appear on google maps either, so we headed for the rough area and crossed our fingers. As we got futher inland, and higher up, the fog got thicker and thicker. Eventually, we found a picnic area that looked hopeful, and asked a man there if we were in the right place - he told us were to go (about a mile further down the road), and added that with this much fog, we might not find it! We found the other picnic area, and started walking around, with an ever increasing sense of hopelessness - running over to every big rock visible through the dense fog, only to be disappointed. We decided to try the other side of the parking area, and eventually, we saw it on top of a hill (or sticking out from the top). It's quite low, but that's probably because it hasn...