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Pardon my ignorance. Ley lines?
(Frankly I'm too lazy to do a Google search right now...)
Researchers have found 'energy' lines that run in straight lines up and down the country - technically, they are magnetic fault lines in the earths tectonic plates.
I'm not too well up on this, but I believe a lot of them have been found by 'dowsing'.
Interestingly, when you superimpose many of these lines onto ariel photographs, they nearly always go through ancient landmarks like churches, crossroads etc.
If you plot all the known ley lines onto a map of britain, you find that they go through all the towns with names like 'brent' & 'burnt', (brent is an old English word for fire) - all these towns have had serious fires throughout history.
Paul Deveraux is the only serious researcher that I know of - if you are interested in the subject, it would be worth throwing his name into the search engine.
Paul Deveraux also researches 'faery routes', which are absolutley fascinating, but worthy of a completely different thread if anyone is interested.
Try these sites
http://www.leyman.demon.co.uk/
http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/leylines.htm
Paul