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How a businessman’s hunch became New Age gospel

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 01, 2026
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The Old Straight Track

Alfred Watkins was driving across the hills near Blackwardine, in Herefordshire, when he looked out at the landscape and thought he saw a pattern. Ancient mounds, hilltop beacons, old churches, moats, and standing stones seemed to fall into dead-straight lines across the countryside. He went home and started ruling lines across his…

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