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Originally Posted by oldE

This is a strange statement to anyone with a knowledge of direction. The orientation of the line through the listed churches is northeast-southwest, almost perpendicular to the line in the second image.
Given the number and distribution of churches in the UK it is likely you could list a collection of them in a line to any point of the compass.

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Les

Exactly. Pretty much anything that anyone wants to show can be shown if they scale it out far enough, or make the tolerance large enough. And folks do this all of the time.

Welcome to the Internet where anyone can expose their thoughts to the rest of the world whether they should or not!

I drew a line from Iceland to Madagascar, and you should see what happened! The line goes through Ireland, Europe, and a bunch of countries in Africa. Coincidence or something else?!? You decide!