Some Facts About BritainThe pixies that haunt New Bridge on Dartmoor; the spectre of Jan Tregeagle, who must empty Dozmary Pool with only a limpet shell, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall; the spectre of the 18th Century Reverend Cole, seen in the garden of the vicarage at Luxulyan, Cornwall; ghostly monks at Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devon; how Parson Jupp was reincarnated as a spider at the vicarage in St Cleer, Cornwall; the spectre of Mrs Baines, killed by her own watchman, in Penzance, Cornwall; the wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; how a white hare seen near Looe, Cornwall, is the spirit of a suicidal girl; the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, seen in the Byward Tower of the Tower of London; and the demons, witches and piskeys (pixies) that torment travellers at Kenidjack near St Just, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Leith Scotland UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Hotel Lisboa and its famous casino in Macau, the Imperial Hotel in Delhi, the Queen Mary in Long Beach, the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar, the Grand Hyatt Macau and Christian's Hotel in Luoyang China. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. |