Lionel Beer, Jim Goddard, Eileen Roche and Gordon Millington first went to Leith Hill, where a number of lines were detected. The party then walked through the woods in a northerly direction, with Lionel pointing out where mining or digging had previously taken place, presumably for the sand. The footpath followed showed evidence of having previously been a paved, perhaps industrial, route.
On the road at the foot of Leith Hill, the E-line was dowsed with rods by Eileen and Jim to the west of the entrance for High Ashes Farm.
Then the party left for the spot where the older OS map had shown a gap to exist between plantations along the E-line route, whilst the newer map showed this to be overgrown. A horshoe was found at the edge of a field en route for the trees, many rabbits were in the hedgerows. Cuckoos were heard. The weather was cloudier, chillier.
At the second wood on the map, by a gate, the E- Line was suddenly encountered very strongly by Eileen, who felt the energy at chest height, making it difficult to breath. A pond was noted in the hedge on the south side of the line, which Eileen felt to be rather malignant. Gordon waited at this spot and the others continued.
Jim was dowsing on the track through the wood and his rods were twirling in circles very strongly. Eileen also dowsed and felt the energy very strongly. On the right in Bell Copse she found a very beautiful bluebell wood, and everyone enjoyed the peace and tranquillity as well as the scent of this spot. She also found one white bluebell growing. Lionel pointed out that the water table in this area seemed to be very high.
Continuing along the track, it was found that the E-line took in the entire width of the track, even allowing the path to meander and curve somewhat within its boundaries. A row of trees had been planted on both edges of the track, which were not yet mature, and within these each side a newer row of saplings had been planted.
At the T-junction with the farm track to Bures Manor, Jim measured the width as being 65 strides wide. Eileen made it 87 paces wide, being 50 paces from the south edge to the dowsed middle of the line.
Lionel found a huge old oak tree marking the southern boundary of the line, and discovered what he thought may be the ruin of a Victorian ice house in its roots. (Jim subsequently wrote to Bures Manor and discovered that it was in fact an old lime-kiln.)
Opposite this on the Bures Manor track was a younger, but still large, oak. There were many oaks in the vicinity. Some children who came by on their bikes told us that the ruin was an air-raid shelter. Subsequently, Jim found that all the photos he had taken after the pond, and until we left that spot, were out of focus, although other photos taken that day developed well. On the return journey, after the pond, Eileen noted that the edge of the E-line as dowsed with rods was marked on the south side in the field by a large oak.