Some Facts About BritainThe Wish Hounds of the Wild Hunt that haunt Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor; how Mordred mortally wounded King Arthur at Slaughterbridge, Cornwall; the procession of ghostly, white-clad monks on the Lych Way, Dartmoor; the spectre of George II, sometimes asking "Where are they?" in a German accent, seen at the windows of Kensington Palace, London; the ghostly drummer of Culzean Castle, Scotland; the spectres, in Welsh costume, of Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler, "the Ladies of Llangollen", seen in their home Plas Newydd in Llangollen, Wales; a phantom miner, demons and the damned Jan Tregeagle (hiding from Satan) in St Michael's Chapel, Roche Rocks, Cornwall; the famous ghost of Dorothy Dingley, still seen in Botathan, Cornwall, in spite of a 17th Centuty attempt at exorcism; the sound of bells, from a sunken ship, heard near Forrabury, Cornwall; and the white-clad spectre of Lady Margaret Pomeroy, starved to death by her sister, seen in the dungeons and on the battlements of Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Marston Green England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong, the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong, the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh (Marrakech) and the PuLi Hotel and Spa in Shanghai. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. |