Some Facts About BritainHow baptism in the water of St Ruth's Well in Redruth, Cornwall, saves any child from being hanged in the future; the ghostly monk haunting the rectory in North Huish, Devon; how two half-brothers, children of a bigamous and murderous crusader, finally met and befriended each other at Pengersick Castle - a white hare is the spirit of one of their mothers; how a white hare seen near Looe, Cornwall, is the spirit of a suicidal girl; how Sir Francis Drake hunts with the Wish Hounds near Marchant's Cross, Dartmoor; how Sir Francis Drake invoked the Devil to make changes to his home, Buckland Abbey; ghostly monks at Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devon; the fascinating museum of witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall; the headless hound seen south of Aberystwyth, Wales; and how the menhirs the Nine Maidens, near st Columb Major, Cornwall, were nine girls (and a fiddler) petrified for carousing on the Sabbath, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Alderley Edge England UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, the Fasano Hotel e Restaurante Rio in Rio de Janeiro, the Renaissance Suzhou Hotel in Suzhou China, the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, the Hotel Lisboa and its famous casino in Macau, the Cascades Hotel at Sun City in South Africa and the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. |