Many regard it as the most modern town in the United Kingdom. But under the face of modernity, is Milton Keynes hiding its true identity - as a source of earth power?
Our fascination was initially drawn by the oft-mentioned fact that Midsummer Boulevard, Avebury Boulevard and Silbury Boulevard all align on the midsummer sunrise. But that is not where it ends. In fact, all the "H" grid roads are oriented on a North-East to South-West axis, as the map below shows.
It should be noted that, with the exceptions described below, there is no reason to suspect any special reason for the arrangement of the "V" roads, or streets. They are merely there to act as links between the "H" roads, to enable the grid system to work.
When we start to consider the names of the "H" roads we find a wealth of knowledge about the city that could not be found within the realms of supposed "conventional" wisdom. For example, "Standing Way" could be an indication of the former existence of standing stones - perhaps one at each point where there is now a roundabout. To those that object to this theory, we can point out that if these stones were erected from sandstone from the Greensand Ridge, to the south of Milton Keynes, they might by now have left no evidence. The sandstone is very soft, and could easily have weathered away over a period of 4-6,000 years and melted into the clay subsoil.
Likewise, Child's Way is potentially evidence that children, being especially prized in a pre-scientific age, were buried at special locations. Monk's Way is associated with Bradwell Abbey - but the presence of Bradwell Abbey itself could itself indicate a former use of the site: early Christian foundations were often built on sites that were already hallowed.
From this evidence, we can postulate a network of sacred sites, created at around the period 5-4,500 BCE. These sites, viewed from above, would represent the sites that now form the intersections of the grid roads - that is, the roundabouts of the modern city. The modern-day spacing of the roundabouts, and therefore of the estates of the town itself, appear to be based on a "megalithic mile" of approximately 1,000 yards - possibly based on a measure of 2,000 cubits.
Strangely, neither the Council, nor its predecessors the District Council and the Development Corporation, have ever denied that the grid roads were laid according to a plan that predates the city by 6,000 years.
Fact - We have never been allowed to excavate a single roundabout in Milton Keynes
The central road in Central Milton Keynes is Midsummer Boulevard. But is it correctly named? We will start from the assumption that Midsummer Boulevard is based on an ancient line of power - entirely possible when we consider that it leads up to the former "Black Hill", now know as part of Campbell Park. Standing at the highest point on Campbell Park, we do indeed have a fine view to the North-East, the direction of the Summer sunrise. In fact, at the right time of the the year, the sun will rise over the Peace Pagoda at Willen Lake - a fortunate co-incidence or detailed planning? However, we would argue that this is not the true focus of the alignment of Central Milton Keynes. To see this we would have to turn through 180 degrees.
For the northernmost sunrise of the year is aligned precisely opposite the most southerly sunset. While the midsummer sunrise is of interest, can we imagine anything more dramatic than the winter sunset? On the shortest day of the year, the sun is barely above the horizon for seven hours at this latitude. As the sunset and sunset move more and more towards the south, the year seems to be dying. Will there ever be an end? The ancient world knew the answer. As the equinox approaches, the rate of southward movement slows, and the change in the length of days reduces. The 21st of December (modern dating - New Year's Day according to the old reckoning) is the day when the Sun stops its southward march, and the days start to lengthen again. With no leaves on the trees, visibility at a distance improves - sight-lines in countryside areas are much longer than they are in the summer. We can imagine the Druid Bards of the Neolithic period, standing on Black Hill, and watching the dying sun of midwinter's evening, burning the bonfires that will drag the sun through its celestial night and into a new year. And - as if we could not guess - at the point on the horizon where the sun drops out of sight are the burial mounds of Thornborough. Perhaps the priests and people, lighting their own fire as the sun's rays disappeared, looked again to the south-west as the next fire was lit at Thornborough just 30 or so seconds later, and the dying sun faded away to the West. The Western World mourned the dying of the light, and prayed for the Sun's return through its use of sympathetic magic.
Milton Keynes is a watery place indeed. As well as the rivers Ouse, Tove and Ousel in the vicinity, the Grand Union canal has in modern times been dug across it.
But more recently than this has been the creation of a series of so-called "Balancing Lakes". Furzton, the Teardrop Lakes, Caldecott, Willen - the list goes on. The Development Council claimed these were dug to act as buffers, due to the increased runoff from the newly built estates. Yet we would like to propose a more radical suggestion - did the Development Council know that, by the introduction of 200,000 souls into the powercharged grid that is the backbone of Milton Keynes, they could potentially generate the kind of psychic energy that might start to attract attention from... elsewhere? In fact, the "Balancing Lakes" are a series of spiritual capacitors. They are indeed buffers - but buffers of spiritual power. When the lakes eventually fill with power, drawn from the loves, lives and emotions of the 200,000 new citizens - then we may see what Milton Keynes was generally built for - a landing strip for supremely intelligent, alien beings. Nobody from the Milton Keynes Development Corporation was available to deny our assertions.
Fact - Northampton and Luton are similarly sized towns to Milton Keynes, its neighbours to North and South. Yet neither requires "Balancing Lakes".
Chalkhenge
Now let us turn to the most important part - and concluding part - of our jigsaw. The work of Professor Thor Thomlinsonson of the Open University's Department of Applied Archaeology. Under 12" layers of 4,000 years-old Ouzel Silt, near the so-called "Denbigh Anomaly" where two V-roads meet at right-angles, Prof Thomlinsonson and his team uncovered "Chalkhenge". This monument is unlike anything in its creation - the trilithons are like only Stonehenge, but unlike genuine henge monuments there are no ditch and bank.
We can only come close to the meaning of "Chalkhenge" when we realise it can never truly have been used as a ritual monument. The softness of the chalk - dragged, presumably, from the pits of Blows' Downs in Dunstable - meant that the monument would literally have melted - McArthur Park-like - in the rain. The early inhabitants must have built the monument, and then deliberately immediately buried it in the soft, clayey silt from the Ouzel's banks. What were the doing?
The clue is in the alignment of what Prof Thomlinsonson identified as the "Sirius Stone", the large stone at the centre of the circle. It points directly in the direction of the star Sirius, at the point of sunset on the shortest day of the year. Surely an indication that "Beanhill Man" was aware of the existence of the Cynions, the inhabitants of the "Dog Star".
Time running out
In conclusion, then. We have identified the clues, hidden for long millennia in the North Buckinghamshire landscape but now made explicit in the grid road system. We have identified the presence of a sophisticated psychic storage system, in the so-called "Balancing Lakes". And we have made an educated guess at the alien intelligence with which Beanhill Man was trying to communicate. The evidence is clear - successive local government bodies have, wittingly or unwittingly, colluded to alert the Cynions to humanity's growth in numbers and technological ability. Maybe the desire to do this was written into our DNA, those many centuries ago when the Cynions last visited. Maybe the MKDC and its successors had no choice - they were acting under a race memory.
In any case, Sirius is only 8.6 Light Years away. Let us assume that the Cynions are limited to travelling at the speed of light. From the day the signal is triggered, which may already have happened, we will have just eight and a half years. Let us be ready.
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