Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way
up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From
Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to
Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to
Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in
Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to
several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus
about thirty more sites en route). A single dead straight line
following 1 degree 50 West up Britain. No other north-south
straight line goes through so many ancient sites of such
significance. Was it just a suggestive coincidence or were they
built intentionally? Twigger walks the line, which takes him
through Birmingham, Halifax and Consett as well as Salisbury Plain,
the Peak district, and the Yorkshire moors. With a planning
schedule that focused more on reading about shamanism and beat
poetry than hardening his feet up, he sets off ever hopeful. He
wild-camps along the way, living like a homeless bum, with a heart
that starts stifled but ends up soaring with the beauty of life. He
sleeps in a prehistoric cave, falls into a river, crosses a
'suicide viaduct' and gets told off by a farmer's wife for
trespassing; but in this simple life he finds woven gold. He walks
with others and he walks alone, ever alert to the incongruities of
the edgelands he is journeying through.
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