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J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Black Torrington England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Chelsea Hotel in New York, the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai, the PuLi Hotel and Spa in Shanghai, the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in Macau, the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich and the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong. are internationally renowned hotels. Some Facts About BritainThe ghostly white dog of Cator Common on Dartmoor; ghostly monks at Buckfastleigh Abbey, 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 spectre of Anne Boleyn, seen in the Queen's House at the Tower of London; the phantom ship of Croft Pascoe Pool, Cornwall; how a dewar (devil) haunts New Bridge, near Chudleigh Knighton, Devon; how Pengersick Castle, Cornwall, is haunted by a Mr Millington, who accidentally drank the poison intended for his wife; supernatural phenomena including a Lady in Grey, possibly Mary, Queen of Scots, in Holyrood Palace (Holyroodhouse); how hairy hands, perhaps those of an escaped convict, seize the steering wheels of cars near Postbridge, Devon; and the spectre of the 18th Century Reverend Cole, seen in the garden of the vicarage at Luxulyan, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |