Some Facts About BritainHow Sir Francis Drake invoked the Devil to make changes to his home, Buckland Abbey; the headless hound seen south of Aberystwyth, Wales; the ghost of an Irishwoman, who vainly clung to a rock now called the Irish Lady, reliving her death at Sennen Cove, Cornwall; how Dozmary Pool, Cornwall, is home to the Lady of the Lake, protecting King Arthur's sword, Excalibur; the spectre of the 18th Century Reverend Cole, seen in the garden of the vicarage at Luxulyan, Cornwall; the spectre of Jan Tregeagle, who must empty Dozmary Pool with only a limpet shell, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall; 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; the phantom ship that sails inland at St Levan, Cornwall; spectral Roman soldiers who march through the cellars of the Treasurer's House, York; and the demons, witches and piskeys (pixies) that torment travellers at Kenidjack near St Just, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Berriew Wales UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, the Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, the Renaissance Suzhou Hotel in Suzhou China, the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro and Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |