Michael and Mary line (almost) 3
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 60.58 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,043 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 1,240 ft
- Max elevation
- 305 ft
- TrailRank
- 29
- Min elevation
- 27 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- one hour 40 minutes
- Time
- 5 hours 13 minutes
- Coordinates
- 5365
- Uploaded
- June 28, 2019
- Recorded
- June 2019
near Letchworth Garden City, England (United Kingdom)
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Itinerary description
Today’s stage went from Letchworth to Bury St Edmunds. First back to Ickleford from Letchworth, then on to Baldock, before heading towards Bury.
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Religious site
187 ft
Michael and Mary line
Today’s journey begins at Ickleford, outside of Letchworth, where the Ickneild way used to cross the river Hiz. The Michael energy line runs through the church of St Katharine, bedecked with gargoyles and featuring inside a Green Man corbel which we found, after a long search, by dowsing
Religious site
203 ft
Michael and Mary line
Baldock is on the meeting point of three roads. The Church of St Mary was built by the Knights Templar, in a spot appropriate for their mission to protect pilgrims. The Michael line runs through the corner of the George pub and into the church,
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From Baldock we took the A505 to Bury St Edmunds, passing between the Michael and Mary Lines. Each line passes through villages, but we are restricting this pilgrimage to the most significant centres and nodes on the lines.
NB Royston, with it superb cave, is on this route not far from Baldock, but the cave is only open at the weekend, so we will visit it on the return journey on Sunday.