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J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Bickenhill England UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, the Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa, the Peace Hotel (formerly the renowned Cathay Hotel) in Shanghai, the Mandarin Oriental Pudong in Shanghai, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, the Polana Hotel in Maputo and the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune). are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. Some Facts About BritainThe White Lady with a lantern, warning ships of danger on stormy nights, at St Ives, Cornwall; weird paranormal events in Compton Castle, Devon; the wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; how Squire Cabell and his black hounds haunt the Abbots's Way on Dartmoor, Devon; 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 White Lady of Godolphin House, Cornwall, seen coming out of a secret hiding place; the demons, witches and piskeys (pixies) that torment travellers at Kenidjack near St Just, Cornwall; the Lady in White who leaps up behind horse riders in Marazion, Cornwall; how baptism in the water of St Ruth's Well in Redruth, Cornwall, saves any child from being hanged in the future; and the phantom ship of Croft Pascoe Pool, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |