Merlin’s Cave

 

In the coastal cliffs beneath Tintagel Castle lies an echoingly atmospheric cave. And if the stories of old are to be believed, the cave may once have been home to Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend. Most prosaically, Merlin’s Cave is a 330-foot-long sea cave formed by marine erosion. It stretches all the way beneath the craggy head of land on which Tintagel Castle stands, allowing you to enter from one side and exit out the other. It is, without doubt, an impressive cave in its own right.

“They found a naked child upon the sands 

 Of dark Tintagil by the Cornish sea; 

 And that was Arthur; and they fostered him 

 Till he by miracle was approven King”