St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church

St.Edward the Martyr Church

This church, dedicated to the Saxon boy king Edward who was murdered at Corfe Castle in the year 978, is another unlikely place of worship to be found on a ley. This is another quite recent church, built adjacent to the site of one of the railway stations in Brookwood Cemetery, the vast necropolis set aside to receive the ever-growing numbers of London's dead in the nineteenth century. It is owned by the St. Edward Brotherhood, who tend the shrine of St. Edward, which contains some of the remains of the boy king, discovered at Shaftesbury where he was originally buried and confirmed by archaeologists as having injuries matching those reportedly received by Edward.

Once again, as with Woodham Church, there is no record of any other church or older site here. The church was built in 1909 as a second Anglican chapel in the cemetery, then sold to the St. Edward Brotherhood in 1982 for £28,000.

At the field trip on July 21st 2001, rodspin and headhum were experienced, seeming to indicate a ley centre, and the diagonal ley direction of the Buckingham Palace ley seemed to be confirmed.

There is one other ley known to pass through the church, going through a large cross-roads in Aldershot, St. Edward's Church, a non-towered church at Horsell, Danewell Hill on Horsell Common (a large pine clump with several leys and adjacent to the sandpits H.G. Wells chose for the landing of the Martians in War of the Worlds), St. Augustine's Church (Addlestone) - a 1939 church also a subconsciously sited ley centre, St. Nicholas Church, Shepperton, a large cross-roads at St. Margarets, Chiswick Church and Hammersmith Church.

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