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J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Balsham England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, the Villa D'Este on Lake Como, the Chelsea Hotel in New York, the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai, Claridge's in London, the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles and the Palace of the Lost City at Sun City in South Africa. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. Some Facts About BritainHow pins are thrown for luck into the Pixie's Well (St Non's Well), on ominously named Hobb's Park Farm, near Pelynt, Cornwall; the ghost of Lady Jane Grey, seen on the battlements of the Tower of London; how baptism in the water of St Ruth's Well in Redruth, Cornwall, saves any child from being hanged in the future; the spectre of Mrs Baines, killed by her own watchman, in Penzance, Cornwall; 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 cantankerous, storm-raising ghost of the clergyman John Penneck at St Hilary, Cornwall; the ghostly monk haunting the rectory in North Huish, Devon; how Parson Jupp was reincarnated as a spider at the vicarage in St Cleer, Cornwall; the spectre of Anne Boleyn, seen in the Queen's House at the Tower of London; and how Pengersick Castle, Cornwall, is haunted by a Mr Millington, who accidentally drank the poison intended for his wife, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |