Should we take seriously legends about ‘retribution’ coming to humans who violate ritual sites? Robert W E Farrah has been wondering the same thing… It was during the campaign to stop a Christian ‘Millennium Monument’ being erected in the vicinity of Mayburgh henge (see NE 84 & 85) that I was reminded […]
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Robert W E Farrah looks into the esoteric furore ignited by a new public artwork in Carlisle The curse In the very heart of the city of Carlisle, as the new millennium was beginning, a tale of the supernatural was unfolding which would be worthy of the wild imaginings of many a horror writer.
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David Kaiser goes in quest of the ‘original’ Long Meg. Long Meg and Her Daughters is one of northern England’s most famous prehistoric monuments. It’s an impressive site. About five miles N of Penrith, it is Britain’s sixth largest stone circle. It originally consisted of a ring of about seventy large stones standing in an
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Paul Devereux is a man in quest of the mystical centre of England… Is an East Midlands hill an omphalos? Many ancient lands had an acknowledged territorial sacred, symbolical centre or navel, its omphalos, and every country has its optimum geographical centre point which may or may not coincide with it. In some places
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We say that time flies, and sometimes it drags…but there are times, as John Billingsley has found, that it just seems to slip out of place… Time Shifts? Isn’t it funny how time flies, sometimes? Not just when you’re enjoying yourself, necessarily, but also when it seems to have some agenda of its own. Then
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Our series of self-guided walks continues with Taurus (Apr. 22-May.21 approx.). You will need the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 South Pennines map. Please note that routes and their condition were accurate at their time of survey, 2018-2020; updates may be made at later dates. Please be alert to any other Taurean quasi-affirmations as you walk!
Our series of self-guided walks continues with Aries (Mar. 22-Apr.21 approx.). You will need the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 South Pennines map. Please note that routes and their condition were accurate at their time of survey, 2018-2020; updates may be made at later dates. Please be alert to any other quasi-affirmations of Aries as you walk!
Our series of self-guided walks continues with Pisces (Feb. 22-March 21 approx.). You will need the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 South Pennines map. Please note that routes and their condition were accurate at their time of survey, 2018-2020; updates may be made at later dates. Please be alert to any other quasi-affirmations of Pisces as you
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Our series of self-guided walks continues with Aquarius (Jan. 22-Feb.21 approx.). You will need the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 South Pennines map. Please note that routes and their condition were accurate at their time of survey, 2018-2020; updates may be made at later dates. Please be alert to any other quasi-affirmations of Aquarius the water-carrier as
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Tickets are now available for Gareth E Rees’ talk at Hebden Bridge Library (HX7 8EP) from 5pm on Saturday June 15th! (doors open 4.30). https://northernearth.co.uk/books/ and The Bookcase, Hebden Bridge Dreaming Valleys & Northern Earth are pleased to welcome author Gareth E Rees back to Hebden Bridge, to speak on and discuss his new
Event: Gareth E Rees, Sunken Lands. Tickets available Read More »