Some Facts About BritainHow 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; the ghostly monk haunting the rectory in North Huish, Devon; how the dark-clad daughter of Judge Glanville, who sentenced her to death, is often seen in Kilworthy House, in Tavistock, Devon; how a dewar (devil) haunts New Bridge, near Chudleigh Knighton, Devon; the ghost of Lady Glamis, burned at the stake in the reign of witchcraft-obsessed James V of Scotland, that hovers above the clock tower and walks the corridors of Glamis Castle; how baptism in the water of St Ruth's Well in Redruth, Cornwall, saves any child from being hanged in the future; the ghost of Clifford Dudley, executed with Lady Jane Grey, still weeping in the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London; how the menhirs the Nine Maidens, near st Columb Major, Cornwall, were nine girls (and a fiddler) petrified for carousing on the Sabbath; supernatural phenomena including a Lady in Grey, possibly Mary, Queen of Scots, in Holyrood Palace (Holyroodhouse); and how Squire Cabell and his black hounds haunt the Abbots's Way on Dartmoor, Devon, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Baranailt Northern Ireland UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa, the Grand Hyatt Macau, the Savoy Hotel in London, the Imperial Hotel in Delhi, Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh (Marrakech), the Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay and the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. are internationally renowned hotels. |