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J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Barrow Upon Humber England UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa, the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), the Fasano Hotel e Restaurante Rio in Rio de Janeiro, the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong and the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. Some Facts About BritainThe spectre of Sir William Langhorne that harasses women in Charlton House, now a community centre, in London; the neighing, ghostly bear of St Blazey, Cornwall; the headless hound seen south of Aberystwyth, Wales; the Pool of the Black Hound near Dean Combe, Devon, where a phantom dog (actually a weaver named Knowles) is doomed to empty the pond with a leaky nutshell; the buried treasure of John "Long Ben" Avery at Kennack Cove, Cornwall; the Portuguese treasure ship sunk off Gunwalloe, Cornwall; how hairy hands, perhaps those of an escaped convict, seize the steering wheels of cars near Postbridge, 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 Pengersick Castle, Cornwall, is haunted by a Mr Millington, who accidentally drank the poison intended for his wife; and the spectre of Jan Tregeagle, who must empty Dozmary Pool with only a limpet shell, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |