Sacred Places: Personal Stories
Welcome to the Sacred Places Personal Stories pages. Below you will find the stories and experiences of locations held sacred by folk from all different backgrounds and areas of the world. While these pages are available to anyone to read, in order to contribute you need to be a member of the Druid Network. To get started, have a look at our Member Pages Guide and then you can go to Create a Member Page. (If you are not a member of The Druid Network and are interested in finding out more, please see our pages on joining the Network.)
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| Title | Picture | Location | Created | Updated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia |  | Australia | Its the start of the harvest season here in Australia. Due to the extreme weather conditions being endured this seasons harvest will not be be a good one. At the beginning of Summer we were blessed with good rainfall, this meant that the harvest would be abundant. However the rains kept coming.In Queensland the destructive force of so much water after so much drought, will take a very long time to recover from. | Feb 2 2011 | Feb 2 2011 |
| Sinfield Trust |  | England East Anglia | Promoting an earth-centred vision for the futureThe Sinfield Nature Conservation Trust is a Suffolk-based charity preserving 115 acres of wild-flower meadows, woodland, ancient trees and ponds and promoting nature conservation to benefit all. | Jul 5 2010 | Jul 5 2010 |
| Flowing Waters |  | Scotland | From between two stones, emerges the waters of Hunters Bog, found at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh. It is quiet here, far enough into the park that the noise of traffic and the city are blocked by the earth hills that surround. And here, dark water emerges from the ground, flowing through a burn that runs through the land and eventually into St Margaret's Loch. | Jan 5 2010 | Jan 5 2010 |
| Nitmiluk - Katherine Gorge |  | Australia | This is Katherine Gorge, in Nitmiluk National Park, in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is millions of years old and home to the Jawoyn people. | Dec 15 2009 | Dec 16 2009 |
| Traitor's Ford |  | England Midlands | Follow a tiny road from the village where I live, out of the valley, along the ridge, and head down into the next valley. You pass into a covering of trees and at the bottom, there is a ford. It is called Traitor's Ford, and stories tell of a clash between Royalists and Parliamentarians soon after the battle of Edgehill, which took place some 10 miles further north. | Oct 20 2009 | Oct 20 2009 |
| The Orb - an encounter with a hidden East Anglian Tumulus |  | England East Anglia | Still remaining…a small ancient place, surrounded by flatpack pines, but ringed with birch. The Ordnance Survey ‘Tumulus’ has been spared, and stands now isolated from the East Anglian heath and the view of the Saxon shore. I visit to satisfy myself that it is still as shown on the map. To know that it has not been devoured by forest and it awaits the day… | Sep 29 2009 | Oct 18 2009 |