04/11/26 - On the Trail of...... Alfred Watkins

Ley Line HuntingAlfred Watkins wrote the first book on Ley Lines. Published just over 100 years ago, his academic study in The Old Straight Track noticed that ancient landscape features - churches, stone circles, hill forts, ford crossings, etc - often line up in a dead straight line.The Man..... and his workThe book is a game changer for those that like exploring outside. It's highly dubious that Ley Lines actually exist. He argues in the book against popular counter arguments - such as the Lines taking difficult paths and artefacts being from a different age. More compellingly, modern sceptics have been able to draw Ley Lines between modern things - like BT telephone boxes. But the chapters do compel the walker to consider why things are built where they are and where places get their names from. A brilliant chapter on how often the name Cole (corrupted to Cold) appears in the British landscape. Cole - a name for a magician and carrier of a sighting staff.Herefordshire Council has…

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