We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Blagdon England UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, the Queen Mary in Long Beach, the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund and the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. Some Facts About BritainThe ghost of Lady Jane Grey, seen on the battlements of the Tower of London; how money paid by the Devil at the Tavistock Inn in Poundgate, Devon, turned into leaves after he left; how the dark-clad daughter of Judge Glanville, who sentenced her to death, is often seen in Kilworthy House, in Tavistock, Devon; how Dozmary Pool, Cornwall, is home to the Lady of the Lake, protecting King Arthur's sword, Excalibur; 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 coach pulled by headless horses, a harbinger of death, in Penzance, Cornwall; the spectre of Anne Boleyn, seen in the Queen's House at the Tower of London; the neighing, ghostly bear of St Blazey, Cornwall; 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; and the ghost of Clifford Dudley, executed with Lady Jane Grey, still weeping in the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |