Date: 1891
That there was a Roman camp on Castlefield, with- in the area of the city, there is no doubt ; that it occupied the site of an earlier British settlement historians have asserted; that it may claim to have been inhabited for nearly eighteen hundred years cannot be disputed ; but this is not all.  Poetic RMS OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTEI legends might seem out of place in a great commercial city — the spinning-jenny and the steam- engine have been long known to be inimical to nymphs and fairies — but Man chester, for all that, existed when there were giants in the land, and has its place in the life of a hero no less doughty than Sir Launcelot of the Lake.  To quote from a ballad