‘Brigantia’ A Mysteriography a book by Guy Raglan Phillips
In 1974 Guy Raglan Phillips discovered a network of alignments in an area of northern England called in ancient times Brigantia. The lines were of the Watkins variety found on maps that linked ancient sites called Leys. Phillips North-South parallel lines are 12 miles apart, 4 degrees west of of the magnetic north axis, and he believed that pivotal to this whole system of lines seemed to be the longest through route which he named the Belinus Line. According to the mediaeval monk Geoffrey of Monmouth, author of "History of the Kings of Britain“, Belinus is the name of a legendary road building British King.
Monmouth writes that Belinus ruled the kingdom of Cornwall, Kambria (Wales), and Loegria (England), from circa 380-363 BC and that he …"summoned workmen from all over the island and ordered them to construct a road of stones and mortar which would bisect the island longitudinally from the Cornish Sea to the shore of Caithness and should lead in a straight line to each of the cities on route". He decreed that all the temples in the major cities and the roads that led to them were sanctuaries, (where man was safe from attack or arrest) and that everyone should respect a Highway Code of laws laid down by his father Malmutius.
There is no current evidence to support Phillips suggestion that his line follows the course of an ancient road built by King Belinus. However his idea that the line once fell upon Magnetic north, and was the product of surveyors using some form of ancient compass is interesting. The ancient surveyors would have to mark the line in sections from a particular place, and complete the work in a short period of time because the constant cyclical movements of the magnetic pole varies over a year.