Meon Hill
Middle Knoll
It soon became apparent that the sacred axis between Winchester and Carlisle passes close to or straight through hills that mark a centre such as Meon Hill in Warwickshire. Meon is an ancient British word meaning Middle; the middle string of a five-string lyre is called a Meon string. The alignment even begins its journey on the south coast of mainland Britain through the Meon Estuary, near Titchfield in Hampshire. It was only when I arrived at the village of Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire that I discovered it has been designated by the Ordinance Survey as the exact centre of Britain which includes its 401 principal offshore islands. Very close to Dunsop Bridge, the alignment passes through the lower slopes of a hill locally referred to as the centre of Britain, called Middle Knoll. Pitlochery in Perthshire on the Scottish section of the Belinus Line is the most geographically central town in Scotland, the actual centre lies in the Forest of Athol, close to the alignment.