100 years ago today Alfred Watkins had his epiphany, at Blackwardine in Herefordshire, about the landscape alignments he called leys. Read the whole story in the excellent latest issue of @Northern_Earth – 1960s earth energy stuff is not the real story.
The real story is that Watkins opened up scrutiny of and delight in British topography outside the narrow purview of professional archaeology (important too, of course) and for ordinary people.