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==Alfred Watkins and The Old Straight Track==

==Alfred Watkins and The Old Straight Track==

The [[concept]] of "ley lines" is generally thought of in relation to Alfred Watkins, although the stimulus and background for the concept is attributed to the English astronomer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lockyer Norman Lockyer]. On 30 June 1921, Watkins visited [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwardine Blackwardine] in Herefordshire, and went horseriding near some hills in the vicinity of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredwardine Bredwardine], when he noted that many of the footpaths there seemed to connect one hilltop to another in a straight line. He was [[studying]] a map when he noticed places in alignment. "The whole thing came to me in a flash", he later told his son. It has been suggested that Watkins' [[experience]] stemmed from faint [[memories]] of an account in September 1870 by William Henry Black given to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Archaeological_Association British Archaeological Association] in Hereford titled ''Boundaries and Landmarks'', in which he speculated that "Monuments exist marking grand geometrical lines which cover the whole of Western Europe".[7]

The [[concept]] of "ley lines" is generally thought of in relation to Alfred Watkins, although the stimulus and background for the concept is attributed to the English astronomer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lockyer Norman Lockyer]. On 30 June 1921, Watkins visited [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwardine Blackwardine] in Herefordshire, and went horseriding near some hills in the vicinity of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredwardine Bredwardine], when he noted that many of the footpaths there seemed to connect one hilltop to another in a straight line. He was [[studying]] a map when he noticed places in alignment. "The whole thing came to me in a flash", he later told his son. It has been suggested that Watkins' [[experience]] stemmed from faint [[memories]] of an account in September 1870 by William Henry Black given to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Archaeological_Association British Archaeological Association] in Hereford titled ''Boundaries and Landmarks'', in which he speculated that "Monuments exist marking grand geometrical lines which cover the whole of Western Europe".[7]

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Ley Lines''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Ley_Lines '''''this link'''''].</center>

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Ley Lines''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Ley_Lines '''''this link'''''].</center>

Watkins believed that, in ancient times, when Britain was far more densely [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest forested], the country was criss-crossed by a network of straight-line [[travel]] routes, with prominent features of the [[landscape]] being used as [[navigation]] points. This [[observation]] was made [[public]] at a meeting of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolhope_Naturalists%27_Field_Club Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club] of Hereford in September 1921. His work referred to G. H. Piper's paper presented to the Woolhope Club in 1882, which noted that: "A line drawn from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysgyryd_Fawr Skirrid-fawr] mountain northwards to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Stone,_Herefordshire Arthur's Stone] would pass over the camp and southern most point of Hatterall Hill, Oldcastle, Longtown Castle, and Urishay and Snodhill castles." The ancient [[survey]]ors who supposedly made the lines were given the name "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodmen dodmen]". He believed that the lines themselves had been called "leys" because so many of them passed through locations whose names included the element "ley",[9] stating that [[philologists]] defined the [[word]] (spelled also as lay, lea, lee, or leigh) differently but had misinterpreted it.

Watkins believed that, in ancient times, when Britain was far more densely [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest forested], the country was criss-crossed by a network of straight-line [[travel]] routes, with prominent features of the [[landscape]] being used as [[navigation]] points. This [[observation]] was made [[public]] at a meeting of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolhope_Naturalists%27_Field_Club Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club] of Hereford in September 1921. His work referred to G. H. Piper's paper presented to the Woolhope Club in 1882, which noted that: "A line drawn from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysgyryd_Fawr Skirrid-fawr] mountain northwards to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Stone,_Herefordshire Arthur's Stone] would pass over the camp and southern most point of Hatterall Hill, Oldcastle, Longtown Castle, and Urishay and Snodhill castles." The ancient [[survey]]ors who supposedly made the lines were given the name "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodmen dodmen]". He believed that the lines themselves had been called "leys" because so many of them passed through locations whose names included the element "ley",[9] stating that [[philologists]] defined the [[word]] (spelled also as lay, lea, lee, or leigh) differently but had misinterpreted it.

==Attribution of spiritual significance to ley lines==

==Attribution of spiritual significance to ley lines==