Some Facts About BritainThe fabled Loch Ness Monster of the Scottish Highlands; the spectral bear that terrified a sentry at the Martin Tower of the Tower of London; a phantom miner, demons and the damned Jan Tregeagle (hiding from Satan) in St Michael's Chapel, Roche Rocks, Cornwall; the spectral monk of the Old Priory in Trevethey, Cornwall; the ghost of Squire Hilliard that appears at an upstairs window, as well as other unexplained phenomena, at the Black House in Higher Brixham, Devon; Lyonesse, the fabled land that once joined Land's End to the Isles of Scilly; the Wish Hounds of the Wild Hunt that haunt Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor; the phantom great Dane seen at Cheriton Cross, Devon; the ghostly black dog, a portent of death, seen at Okehampton Castle, Devon; and ghostly hammering heard in the Blue Room of Glamis Castle, Scotland, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Abbey Dore England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay, the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), the Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro, the Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, Claridge's in London, the Mandarin Oriental Pudong in Shanghai and the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. are internationally renowned hotels. |