About 140 people stayed overnight at the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, England, on Friday, February 1, 2019, after heavy snow shut down the A30. The inn's staff put 15 beds in the restaurant and another five in the lounge. “I stole sheets from wherever possible. I’m sure my head housekeeper will kill me,” manager Sammy Wheeler said.

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Southwest England was slammed by a heavy snow on Thursday.The A30 closed in Cornwall, stranding hundreds of travelers.The Jamaica Inn took in 140 people, including an 8-month-old with a heart condition.

With strangers sharing rooms and mattresses scattered wherever there was space, the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, England, became an overnight shelter for 140 people stranded when heavy snow shut down a highway.

On Thursday, Southwest England's first major snowfall of the winter closed schools, canceled flights and left , the Guardian reported. Up to 5 inches of snow was recorded in Bodmin, Cornwall, the Met Office, Britain's national weather service, reported.

Many of the stranded motorists made their way to the Jamaica Inn, which was made famous by of the same name, , Sammy Wheeler, general manager of the 270-year-old pub, told the Guardian.

“Some of them walked a good three, four or five miles. People were fed up of being in a cold car and they were running out of fuel,” Wheeler said.

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Among those seeking refuge was a family with, the inn said. The parents called the inn from the roadside and asked for help. Inn employees went to the car and carried the baby back while the parents followed.

All 36 rooms at the inn were taken, and strangers bunked together. Additional mattresses were set up in the restaurant and bar. Blankets were handed out to those who decided to nap where they sat.

“It was actually a lovely atmosphere – we brought out all our board games and complete strangers were playing against each other. A lot of people made friends – probably for life – with ,” assistant manager Charlotte Barron told Cornwall Live.

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Two staffers kept the kitchen going all night serving fish and chips and steak and ale pie until about 3 a.m. when they switched to breakfast food, Barron said.

About 140 people stayed overnight at the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, England, on Friday, February 1, 2019, after southwest England got its first heavy snow of the season.

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Staff members used the inn's four-wheel-drive vehicle to take stranded motorists back to their cars beginning about 8 a.m. Friday.

Jonathan Erdman, senior meteorologist at weather.com, said, "A large gyre of low pressure spinning in the Celtic Sea off the tip of Cornwall wrapped moisture into cold air that was in place over the south of England. This low will shift southeast into the Mediterranean Sea this weekend, taking any chances of additional snow with it."

In addition to the people at the Jamaica Inn, 350 students and 26 staffers were stranded overnight at a school in Cornwall.

Mark Wardle, the principal of Callywith College in Bodmin, told Cornwall Live he to take students home weren't going to make it through the snow.

So the teachers and students camped at the school overnight.

Asda, a supermarket retailer, donated more than $1,000 worth of comforters, blankets and pillows, Wardle said.

“It has been a life changing experience for many of us involved, it certainly isn’t something any of us will ever forget," he said.