Could this village in Greater Manchester be the site of King Arthur's Camelot?
KING Arthur’s mythical Camelot could lie beneath a suburban cul-de-sac near Wigan, a book claims.
We didn’t think for one minute that the route would also run through what could be Camelot
Residents in Brookfield Road, in the village of Standish, Greater Manchester, have been stunned to discover their homes could be at the epicentre of Arthurian legend.
Claims that the road could have once been the site of the Round Table appear in a book by Whitbread award-winning author Graham Robb.
In The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe, he says the area was significant as it was the crossroads of two Celtic pathways.
Robb says the precise point of intersection is “at the end of a cul-de-sac running off Old Pepper Lane where a tracks leads to a woodland”.
He says the spot has “an astonishing power to illuminate the long-buried past”. Nearby Martin Mere is known as the Lost Lake of Sir Lancelot.
Robb’s claims have been taken up by a local campaign group which is trying to stop a link road being built across woodland at Almond Brook, at the end of Brookfield Road.
A spokesman for Stop Almond Brook Link Road said: “We have lots of issues with this link road, but we didn’t think for one minute that the route would also run through what could be Camelot.
“This site needs a lot more investigation. It ties in with local legends about King Arthur.”