Brown Willy is said to be one of "the UK's best-loved high points". The hill features in an annual race held on New Year's Day that starts and finishes at Jamaica Inn, an old coaching inn made famous by Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. The hill is regarded as a sacred mountain by members of the Aetherius Society, a UFO religion founded in 1954 by George King. They believe that Brown Willy was charged with "holy energy" on 23 November, which they celebrate each year as "Charging Day", and gather at the hill on that day each year
Battle of the Inn Battle of the Inn The Battle of the Inn was fought in 913, when a Hungarian raiding army, at their return from plunder attacks against Bavaria, Swabia and Northern Burgundy, faced the combined army of Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, counts Erchanger and Burchard of Swabia, and lord Udalrich, who defeat them at Aschbach by river Inn. The skirmish at the Inn river is mentioned by the "Annales Alamannici" (continued by Hermann of Reichenau in the 11th century), the "Annales iuvavenses", the "Continuatio Treverensis chronici Reginonis" (the continuation of Regino of Prüm's "Chronicon", who wrote at Trier in 967) and the