St. Mary's Church, Walton-on-Thames

St. Mary's, Walton-on-Thames

St. Mary's Church, Walton-on-Thames originated in Saxon times, some remaining parts are from the 12th and 15th centuries. It is on the highest point in the town, with a square flint tower, and the ley passes through it centrally, then also going through a main crossroads in the town, the junction of Church Street, Bridge Street, High Street and Hepworth Way. It is a powerful church and the centre of several good leys, and the present writer will always remember it as the place where he first recognised "head-hum", the apparent tone felt in the head at places where earth energies are high. This was still in evidence when the church was visited recently when following the Buckingham Palace ley.

Walton was a small village surrounded by the royal parks until 1800, and was originally part of Henry VIII's Chase of Hampton Court. The village was just outside the park, but was subject to the restrictions of forest law until Henry died. There are connections with Oatlands; Ashley Park, once part of it, formerly ran down to the town with an avenue of trees to the High Street. There is also a brass to John Selwyn in the church - he was a sixteenth century keeper of the Royal Park at Oatlands.

Poem attributed to Elizabeth I

There is a poem attributed to Elizabeth I by the pulpit, apparently an answer to a query as to what she believed about the communion service:

Christ was the Worde and spake it
He took the Bread and brake it
And what the Worde doth make it
That I believe, and take it

The church has a large triple tree in the churchyard, on the ley. At the field trip on July 21st 2001, it was found to be powerful, and lines could be detected radiating in several directions from it. This would seem to be correct, for a number of lines have been previously found to be going through it:

Hampton Court ley: Christ Church (Ottershaw) and coincident track, St. Paul's Church, (Addlestone), Duke's Head crossroads (Addlestone), coincident with Station Road, (Addlestone), St. Mary's (Walton), Hampton Court Palace, skirts Caesar's Camp (Wimbledon Common), Balham Church.

Lyne ley: Fox Hill (Chobham Common), Longcross Church, Holy Trinity Church, (Lyne), St.Mary's (Walton), main cross-roads Thames Ditton, Surbiton Church, New Malden Church, main cross-roads Morden

Egham and Esher ley: Large track multijunction Windsor Great Park, Egham United Church, St. Mary's (Walton), Esher Church, St. George's (Esher) (older church), large road multijunction Epsom, half a mile of coincident road.

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Walton Church and the crossroads