HAVING written extensively about Sir Edward Elgar and Alfred Watkins and having invited Hereford Times readers to follow the Muse and The Old Straight Track in our county, I feel it important to debunk the big myth about poor old Alfred.

While the letter from Richard Bradbury, former secretary of the Elgar in Hereford Group is, I’m sure, a well-meaning one, it nevertheless seeks to associate “ley lines” as he calls them, with countercultural organisations and mysticism (Letters, November 9).

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Firstly, Alfred only ever referred to “leys” but more significantly he never ascribed any kind of jiggery-pokery to them. They were, he argued, simply sighting lines between landmarks. 

The “pseudo-archaeology and pseudo-science” of which he speaks is a much later notion promulgated in many cases by cranks. It is disingenuous of Mr Bradbury to tarnish The Herefordshire Man with this particular brush.

GARTH LAWSON

Hereford