Land's End shown within Cornwall

Land's End (Cornish name: Penn an Wlas) is a headland on the Penwith peninsula, located near Penzance in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. For the Cornish-English dialect see West Country dialects and List of Cornish dialect words. Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment Geography The Penwith peninsula sits predominantly on Granite bedrock that has led to the formation of a rugged coastline with many fine beaches A peninsula is a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by Water but connected to Mainland via an Isthmus. Penzance (Pensans also Penzans, IPA: /pɛnˈzæns/ is a town Civil parish, and Port in the Penwith district of Cornwall Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located It is the most westerly tip of the southern mainland (for Great Britain as a whole it is Corrachadh Mòr, Ardnamurchan, Scotland which is 22 miles further west). This is a list of the extreme points of the United Kingdom: the points that are farther North, South, East or West than any other See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands Corrachadh Mòr ETRS89 () is a small hillock on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, notable for adjoining Ardnamurchan ( Scottish Gaelic: Àird nam Murchan: land of the great seas is a 50 Square mile Peninsula in Lochaber, Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Visible from Land's End is the Longships Lighthouse. Longships is the name given to a group of rocks situated 125 Miles to the west of Land's End, in Penwith, Cornwall, United Kingdom The Longships, a few miles out, is a serpentine and quartz island. The serpentine group describes a group of common rock-forming hydrous Magnesium Iron phyllosilicate (()3 Minerals they Quartz (from German) is the most abundant Mineral in the Earth 's Continental crust (although Feldspar is more common in An island (ˈaɪlənd or isle (/ˈaɪl/ is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water in two dimensions above high tide and isolated from other significant Offshore, midway between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly, is the supposed location of the mythical lost land of Lyonesse, referred to in Arthurian literature. Lyonesse, Lyoness, or Lyonnesse is a country in Arthurian legend, birthplace of the knight Tristan. King Arthur is a legendary British leader who according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders

The name has a particular resonance because it is so often used in outlining the length of Britain when races, walks and charitable events take place between Land's End and the Scottish village John o' Groats (the most north-easterly settlement in mainland Britain). Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. John o' Groats ( Taigh Iain Ghròt in Scottish Gaelic) ( is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland The phrase Land's End to John o' Groats is used both as a literal journey and as a metaphor for great or all-encompassing distance, similar to the American phrase coast to coast. Land's End to John o' Groats is a journey - the traversal of the whole of the island of Great Britain from southwest to northeast Metaphor (from the Greek: μεταφορά - metaphora, meaning "transfer" is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects

There is a theme park at Land's End. Theme park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other Entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group

In 1769 The Antiquarian, William Borlase wrote that,

"Of this time we are to understand what Edward I. says (Sheringham. p. 129. ) that Britain, Wales, and Cornwall, were the portion of Belinus, elder son of Dunwallo, and that that part of the Island, afterwards called England, was divided in three shares, viz. Belinus the Great was a legendary king of the Britons as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Britain, which reached from the Tweed, Westward, as far as the river Ex; Wales inclosed by the rivers Severn, and Dee; and Cornwall from the river Ex to the Land's-End". The River Exe in England rises near the village of Simonsbath, on Exmoor in Somerset, near the Bristol Channel coast For other rivers named "Severn" see Severn River. The River Severn ( Welsh: Afon Hafren, Latin The River Dee ( Welsh: Afon Dyfrdwy) is a 70-mile-long (110 km River.

Gallery

Land's End, the most westerly point in England	The tourist centre at Land's End	The wreck of the RMS Mülheim at Land's End, 2003	The lighthouse off Land's End
Looking south from Land's End	Looking west from Land's End	Looking north from Land's End

See also

A map of land's end from 1946

• Land's End Airport
• List of topics related to Cornwall
• Pointe du Raz a French equivalent?

External links

• "Walking the length of Britain" Lands'End to John O'Groats a free e-book of this great journey
• Illustrated guide to Land's End
• A Few old Postcards of Lands End