Some Facts About BritainHow money paid by the Devil at the Tavistock Inn in Poundgate, Devon, turned into leaves after he left; how a white hare seen near Looe, Cornwall, is the spirit of a suicidal girl; the ghostly monk haunting the rectory in North Huish, Devon; the phantom ship of Croft Pascoe Pool, Cornwall; the wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; the coach pulled by headless horses, a harbinger of death, in Penzance, 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 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 mermaids and sunken treasure of Cudden Point, Cornwall; and how Parson Jupp was reincarnated as a spider at the vicarage in St Cleer, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Lydbury North England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Palace of the Lost City at Sun City in South Africa, the Savoy Hotel in London, the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), the Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa, Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar, the Renaissance Suzhou Hotel in Suzhou China and the Grand Hyatt Macau. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |