The Ancient Landscape
around Glastonbury

Palden Jenkins

This map is unusual and rather unique. It shows ancient and medieval sacred places in Mid-Somerset, and the ley-alignments variously linking them.

These sites tend to be located in uncannily accurate straight lines. Their builders did this for good reasons. There's more about this on the back of the map and on this site.

These ley-alignments are not energy-dowsed: they are straight alignments of ancient and sacred places identified on OS maps and in the landscape.

The map not final or authoritative, though I've been meticulous. There is much more to uncover in this field.

This concerns the future – sustainability, bio-security, climatic re-balancing, re-enchanting nature and the welfare of humanity.

Click down the links on the left to see all that's here.

- Palden Jenkins

I've been involved in 'earth mysteries' since the early 1970s. I learned about leylines in North Wales and later researched the alignments of Uppland, the old Swedish heartland around Uppsala, when I lived there.

When I came to Glastonbury in 1980, I visited local sacred sites and gradually built up a picture of the ancient landscape in the area.

Suddenly, one day, I awoke with an urge to draw a map, and started a few days later. I worked at it non-stop for two months and self-published it in 1982. It was popular, but by the late 1980s it went out of print.

A need remained for such a map but, during the 1990s, I was occupied with other things and couldn't revise it. On the Millennium I had an urge to revisit former work, and re-worked the map between 2002 and 2004 – visiting places and re-examining details. This edition is the result.

Many thanks to Sheila Martin, Tulki Jenkins and Sig Lonegren for their moral support, and to Frances Howard-Gordon the publisher, Bernie Chandler, for typesetting, Peter Woodcock, designer, Richard Fraser for computer help and the St Andrews Press of Wells.

Respect to Alfred Watkins and John Michell, founders of the ley-hunters art.