Article: `Sheila can look at a field and know roughly where the water is before she's even used the rod'

As an engineer and therefore a practical man, Peter Hedges found it difficult to come to terms with his wife's special powers. "It was very hard for me to accept it," he says. "Even now I find it difficult to believe." Neither of them can explain why Sheila is so good at water divining. All they know is that it works.

Not only does it work, her gift as a dowser is now at the centre of a thriving business. With the recent heatwave, Peter and Sheila Hedges have been in great demand on Devon farms. She locates the path of underground water courses, then he sinks a borehole and installs the pumping equipment.

Their 300-year-old farmhouse sits amid glorious rolling hills on the northern edge of ...

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