Sacred Sites: Personal Stories

Welcome to the Sacred Sites 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
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