Some Facts About BritainThe ghostly bag lady haunting the M4 near Heathrow Airport; the spectres of Cavalier Kate Penfound, whose lover John was killed for being a Roundhead, and that of smuggler Arthur Penfound, in Penfound Manor, Cornwall; the white-clad spectre of Lady Margaret Pomeroy, starved to death by her sister, seen in the dungeons and on the battlements of Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon; the spectres, in Welsh costume, of Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler, "the Ladies of Llangollen", seen in their home Plas Newydd in Llangollen, Wales; the ghostly old woman, in a red headscarf, haunting Kitty Steps, by a pool in Lydford Gorge, Dartmoor; the phantom monks carrying a funeral bier, seen near Childe's Tomb on Dartmoor; the procession of ghostly, white-clad monks on the Lych Way, Dartmoor; the monster that lurks in a secret chamber of Glamis Castle, Scotland; the spectre of George II, sometimes asking "Where are they?" in a German accent, seen at the windows of Kensington Palace, London; and the ghost of Squire Hilliard that appears at an upstairs window, as well as other unexplained phenomena, at the Black House in Higher Brixham, Devon, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Ashburnham England UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Mandarin Oriental Macau, Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh (Marrakech), the Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa, the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in Macau, the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, the Queen Mary in Long Beach and the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. |