Some Facts About BritainHow Sir Francis Drake hunts with the Wish Hounds near Marchant's Cross, Dartmoor; the Lady in White who leaps up behind horse riders in Marazion, Cornwall; how pins are thrown for luck into the Pixie's Well (St Non's Well), on ominously named Hobb's Park Farm, near Pelynt, Cornwall; the Portuguese treasure ship sunk off Gunwalloe, Cornwall; the buried treasure of John "Long Ben" Avery at Kennack Cove, Cornwall; the pixies that haunt New Bridge on Dartmoor; the phantom monk, seen on Christmas Eves in the ruined abbey of Strata Florida, Wales; the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, seen in the Byward Tower of the Tower of London; the wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; and the ghostly harbinger of death that haunts Ashleigh Barton, Devon, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Belton England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. Claridge's in London, the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai, the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, the Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay, the Queen Mary in Long Beach and the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. |