Participants in this trip were Eileen Roche and Jim Goddard. At Lonesome Lane we parked the car; a mock Victorian lamp standard was found in the garden of No. 41, a house called Farley Hey. This seemed to mark the south edge of the line. Whilst dowsing in the lane, a milkman seemed to become rather disturbed by our activities and, turning his milk-float around, suddenly drove back the way he had come.
The line was very powerful at this spot, and Eileen and Jim both dowsed with rods. Eileen found separate dowsable bands within the line, which was 280 paces wide along the road. The first band was at 40 paces, walking back towards Reigate, the second at 40 further paces, for the next 80 paces the force was very strong (Jim measured 109 paces to this spot, against Eileen's 120), at a further 80 paces a third band of energy was felt. Jim measured a further 110 paces to the footstile, and 182 paces to the end of the line. Eileen felt the temperature change near the footpath marker.
Following the footpath, we set out to track the E-line through the plantations shown on the older OS map as having a gap, whereas the newer OS maps showed no gap where the E-line had been drawn. Walking through the woods, Jim remarked how beautiful the tree canopy was, giving the impression of a cathedral. Jim had slight head-hum, and Eileen felt tingles, when a boat-shaped depression on the north side of the line was found in the ground. This may have been a dried-up pond. The wood was mainly old beech. There were many wood-pigeons about, and fox runs and deer paths were noted.
The energy was very strong, and it was easy to follow the E-line, but after some time both became disorientated and found it difficult to judge where they were in relation to the maps. For quite some distance the line ran alongside a cleared gap in the woods which seemed to be pastures. Then the angle seemed to change. Later it was found that electricity towers ran up the middle of the E-line, and that the woods had been cleared for these, but a new growth of unidentifiable undergrowth was starting to cover the gap.
The party then went to Tollgate Evangelical Church in the middle of the E-line and incongruously set between large blocks of flats and a petrol garage. Jim thought this was an example of subconscious siting. A notice in the grounds told us that it was affiliated to FIEC.
We then went to Christ Church at King's Cross Lane in South Nutfield, the point where the E-line crosses the Hurt Wood Track line. The church had a clock on the tower, and a notice on the door directed us to a house opposite where a small girl provided us with the key. Outside, Jim dowsed for the Hurt Wood line and found it, but Eileen got an incorrect answer from her dowsing. Checking with the compass, these were the results:
Outside, the E-line dowsed as 183 Eileen paces wide along the pavement opposite the church. There seemed to be a strong pull down a footpath at the side of the church, but this was not investigated
Inside, the church felt very powerful, especially by the altar and at the font. Jim had strong head-hum by the altar, Eileen had goosepimples. A notice told us that a Clarissa Woolloton, whose photo was displayed, had had something to do with causing the church to be built in 1888 - similar to South Holmwood. In spite of a notice offering church histories, none were to be found.
We then left for the place where the E-line crosses Chris Street's north-south London axis line described in his book Earthstars (the "multi-faith line" going through Westminster Cathedral, the Central Synagogue at Hallam Street and a number of other places of worship) on the map. This was found to be in a sheep field in what looked as if it had been country parkland, very beautiful, rolling very gently down from some hills in the distance. It was too misty to see far.
The Street line was easily dowsed, along the side of a field, being 85 Eileen paces wide, 80 Jim paces, with four detectable bands of energy, very strong. It aligned with a gap in the trees on the distant hill to the north.
The E-line, more or less at right-angles to it, dowsed as 150 Eileen paces, 135 Jim paces wide along the other hedgerow. The point where the two lines crossed was in the middle of a field, and not dowsed, as we did not want to trespass in the open.
Following the E-line down the hedgerow past the Street line, a boat-shaped large pond was noted amongst some trees on the north edge of the line. There was a dead magpie laid out beside it. A large oak was leaning over the pond and towards the ley. There were also hawthorn and other oaks, and a smaller tree spiralling at the edge of the pond leaning towards the ley. Jim observed that he had often noticed this effect in trees, being attracted towards leys, also spiralling and doubling of trunks. Eileen remembered the large mature beeches spiralling and twisting alongside Wayland's Smithy tomb near the Uffington White Horse at Pewsey.
Whilst leaning on the fence and looking at the spot where the two leys cross, Eileen noticed between 5 and 8 long necked birds which she thought to be Canada geese but which Jim thought were swans, flying in a row one behind the other from the north (the direction of London) down the Street line. When they reached the E-line, above the field, before the pond, they abruptly made a right turn and flew off in an arrow-shaped formation west, along the E-line. A gentle ridge of hill ran west-east, behind the farm on the horizon - to the south, west and east the land was flat but sloping.
On the return journey a large, friendly brown horse in the field came to investigate, and tried to eat Jim's camera. It snorted loudly through its nose when it reached the centre of the E-line, which we were following.
The party then went to find the spot where the Street line crosses the Leith Tower line, and a Roman villa is marked on the map. Eileen got confused dowsing, and we weren't sure if we found the right spot, but both Jim and Eileen got a strong dowsing reaction when asking for the spot of the Roman Villa. This seemed to be in a corner of a cultivated field, and dowsing indicated that there were buried artefacts below the soil. We did not dig. The footpaths were very overgrown, and a man gardening in the Lodge house gave us permission to walk in the school grounds if we wished.