We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Barnstaple England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong, the Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, the Grand Coloane Beach Resort in Macau, the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi, the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi and the Palace of the Lost City at Sun City in South Africa. are internationally renowned hotels. Some Facts About BritainThe cross-shaped bare earth on the grave of John Davies in the churchyard of Montgomery, Wales, fulfilling his prophecy and proving his innocence of the theft for which he was hanged; the spectral car, seen on the B3212 near Moretonhampstead, Devon; the spectral monk of the Old Priory in Trevethey, Cornwall; 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; the spectral bear that terrified a sentry at the Martin Tower of the Tower of London; the famous ghost of Dorothy Dingley, still seen in Botathan, Cornwall, in spite of a 17th Centuty attempt at exorcism; the May Day celebration of Baiting the Hobby Horse in Padstow, Cornwall; the screams of Katherine Howard, begging for her life, still heard in Hampton Court Palace; the Wish Hounds of the Wild Hunt that haunt Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor; and the ghost of a Crusader, Ranulph, in the moat of Blanchminster Castle, Cornwall, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. |