(above) The Solway Firth from 700 Km (© NASA Landsat) I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I ask is a tall shipand a star to steer her by,And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s songand the white sail’s shaking,And a grey mist on the sea’s…
Camboglanna, The Crooked Glen
Of the many places associated with King Arthur, Cornish Tintagel or Glastonbury Tor spring to mind. But what these places lack in archaeological evidence is compensated by fiction and the lure of the tourist pound (250,000 visitors pay to enter Tintagel Castle annually.) Cumbria also has its fair share of sites affiliated with the name…