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Mythicals in United Kingdom · Mysteria

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Mythicals

Every place in the atlas labelled mythicals.

Places: 7
Countries: 6
World Heritage: 0

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Literary place

Lyonesse – Arthurian Drowned Land

Literary 12th c. (Chrétien) – 15th c. Malory codification; folk attachment 16th c. · Cornish-Celtic / Anglo-Norman chivalric literature

Tristan's homeland between Cornwall and Scilly — 140 churches drowned one night by Arthurian romance.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site

Cantre'r Gwaelod (Lowland Hundred) – Welsh Sunken Land

Legendary 6th c. (Gwyddno) / literary 13th–15th c. · Welsh Celtic / Cumbric

16 villages west of Wales — dyke-keeper Seithenyn's drunken neglect floods lowland; causeways are glacial moraines.