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The greatest figure in the folklore of Britain is the fabulous King Arthur. According to legend he lived in the late-5th and early-6th centuries at a time when this island was the scene of a tremendous bloody struggle for domination between the Britons and the invading Saxon tribes, and their allies, the Picts and the Scots. Arthur is considered to have been a man at the forefront of the Britons heroic defence of their homeland and heritage, the dux bellorum - or military commander - in the southwest and possibly at a national level. Since the time of the earliest chroniclers it has been widely believed that the scene of the majority of the legends was Arthurs brilliant court in a great city situated somewhere in the Kingdom of the West; this city was the famed Camelot. This booklet explores the connections between Arthur in Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Scilly Isles.