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Watkins theorized that select travel routes highlighted a network of straight lines which connected various ancient landmarks.

In the early 1920s, a photographer and self-taught antiquarian named Alfred Watkins published two books, Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track, in which he theorized that various ancient landmarks were connected by a network of straight lines, which he believed were travel routes through England’s once-lush forests. Watkins’ ideas were viewed skeptically by professional archaeologists, but they were embraced enthusiastically by amateurs, who formed the Straight Track Club and traveled around the countryside in an effort to map the routes, which Watkins called “ley lines,” after the Anglo-Saxon word for a cleared strip of ground. The group actually visited Stonehenge in 1930. Over time, students of the occult and New Age philosophy took the concept and expanded upon it, positing that ley lines were conduits for metaphysical energy. They also believe that the connecting points in the network, which often happen to be ancient places of worship, concentrate that power. Stonehenge is one such point, situated along a 22-mile-long ley line that runs from the southwest to the northeast and connects a series of prehistoric burial sites.

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