On the southern bank of the Eamont is an intrenched amphitheatre, called King Arthur’s Round Table, in ancient times used as a tilting-ground; and near it is another relic of antiquity, named Mayburgh, which is supposed to have been the Gymnasium, where the wrestlers, racers, and others of the humbler class performed their exercises.
From: ‘Eachwick – Earnley’, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 121-124.
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