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Places With Other Associations To Arthurian Legend

  • Alnwick Castle is a contender for Lancelot's castle Joyous Garde according to Malory.
  • The castle of Joyeuse Garde in La Forest-Landerneau.
    • Bamburgh Castle is an alternative contender to Alnwick Castle for Lancelot's castle Joyous Gard according to Malory.
  • Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh
  • Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire
  • The convent at Amesbury in Wiltshire has been suggested as the place of banishment of Guinevere.
  • BrocĂ©liande forest is in Brittany
  • The Arthur's cave, the Arthur's Castle and the Castle of Morgane in Huelgoat
  • The Merlin's grave near Plounevez-Quintin
  • The Arthur's hill the hill of Arthur's horse near Gourin in the French Black Mountains
  • The lake of Viviane and Lancelot in Beaufort-en-VallĂ©e, near Angers
  • Carlisle: In Malory, Guinevere's affair with Lancelot was exposed at Carlisle and there she was sentenced to death.
  • Carmarthen was the birthplace of Merlin according to Geoffrey of Monmouth. The name Carmathen is the anglicised form of the Welsh name for the town, 'Caerfyrddin', which means Merlin's fortress ("Caer"-Fortress, "Myrddin"-Merlin). There are many places surrounding Carmarthen with names associating it with Merlin such as Bryn Myrddin, "Merlin's Hill".
  • Castle Dore is the Cornish castle where the story of Tristan is set
  • Carhaix is the city where Tristan got married
  • Dinas Emrys (Iron Age hill fort in Gwynedd said to have been a place of refuge of Vortigern and the site of Merlin's vision of the contest of the Red and White dragons).
  • King Arthur's Hall an enclosure or henge situated on Bodmin Moor Cornwall.
  • Stonehenge is said to be the burial place of Ambrosius Aurelianus and Uther Pendragon.
  • The Berth, near Baschurch in Shropshire, is reputed to be a possible burial place.
  • Tintagel Castle in Cornwall (also said to be Arthur's birthplace by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It is also said to be the stronghold of the Dukes and Duchesses of Cornwall, namely Duchess, then Queen, Igraine (Ygraine, Ygerna) and Duke Gorlois.

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