Mysterious Britain & Ireland

Specific Location: Penrith

Ancient Sites / Festivals / Folklore / Giants / King Arthur / Legends / May / Wells

Giant’s Cave, Edenhall

At Giant’s Cave, near Eden Hall, it has been the custom from time immemorial for the lads and lasses of the neighbouring villages to collect together on the third Sunday in May, to drink sugar and water, when the lasses give the treat: this is called Sugar-and-Water Sunday. They afterwards adjourn to the public house, and the lads return the compliment in cakes, ale, punch, etc.

Ancient Sites / Burial Mounds / Giants / King Arthur / Legends

Eamont Bridge and Arthur’s Round Table

Two prehistoric henge monuments have become known as Arthur’s Round Table, a common theme in folklore were ancient structures become romanticised into legendary sites.  A cave near Eamont Bridge called giants cave is associated with two legendary giants called Tarquin and Isir.