

These two hills are Glastonbury Tor and ‘The Mump’ at Burrowbridge some ten miles to the south-west.

Michael with ruined churches on their summit. It appears to be set between two prominent Somerset hills, both dedicated to St. Michael Line of traditional dragons sites in south-west England (…) is remarkable for its length and accuracy. Ley line lore was rediscovered and embellished a few decades later, most notably by John Michell, whose book The View Over Atlantis (1969) was the first to discuss the St.

The book led to a flurry of ley line exploration in the twenties and thirties, but Watkins’ hypothenuse-rich hypothesis proved too iffy for mainstream science. The first book devoted to ley lines was The Old Straight Track (1925), in which amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins argued for the existence in Britain of an ancient system of straight trackways that connected landscape features and prehistoric monuments.
