Some Facts About BritainThe headless hound seen south of Aberystwyth, Wales; the White Lady with a lantern, warning ships of danger on stormy nights, at St Ives, Cornwall; the ghost of Clifford Dudley, executed with Lady Jane Grey, still weeping in the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London; how Sir Francis Drake hunts with the Wish Hounds near Marchant's Cross, Dartmoor; the ghostly monk haunting the rectory in North Huish, Devon; the spectre of Jan Tregeagle, who must empty Dozmary Pool with only a limpet shell, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall; how pins are thrown for luck into the Pixie's Well (St Non's Well), on ominously named Hobb's Park Farm, near Pelynt, Cornwall; how Sir Francis Drake, with other ghostly magicians, replay the creation, from Devil's Point in Plymouth, the storm that defeated the Spanish Armada; the spectre of Sir William Langhorne that harasses women in Charlton House, now a community centre, in London; and the mermaid carvings of Zennor Church, Cornwall, reminders of how a mermaid and one Matthew Trevella became lovers, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Kirkmichael Scotland UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, the beautiful and historic San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, the Cascades Hotel at Sun City in South Africa, the Peace Hotel (formerly the renowned Cathay Hotel) in Shanghai, the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi and the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |