'''Ley lines''' are alleged alignments of a number of places of [[geographical]] interest, such as ancient [[monuments]] and [[megaliths]], natural ridge-tops and water-fords. Their [[existence]] was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Watkins Alfred Watkins], in his books ''Early British Trackways'' and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Straight_Track ''The Old Straight Track'']. Watkins theorized that these alignments were created for ease of overland trekking by line of sight [[navigation]] during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic neolithic] times and had [[persisted]] in the [[landscape]] over millennia. In more recent times, the term ley lines has come to be [[associated]] with [[spiritual]] and [[mystical]] [[theories]] about land forms, including Chinese [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui feng shui]. | '''Ley lines''' are alleged alignments of a number of places of [[geographical]] interest, such as ancient [[monuments]] and [[megaliths]], natural ridge-tops and water-fords. Their [[existence]] was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Watkins Alfred Watkins], in his books ''Early British Trackways'' and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Straight_Track ''The Old Straight Track'']. Watkins theorized that these alignments were created for ease of overland trekking by line of sight [[navigation]] during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic neolithic] times and had [[persisted]] in the [[landscape]] over millennia. In more recent times, the term ley lines has come to be [[associated]] with [[spiritual]] and [[mystical]] [[theories]] about land forms, including Chinese [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui feng shui]. |