Land's End


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Land's End

or Lands End  (lăndz′ ĕnd′)
A peninsula of southwest England on the coast of Cornwall. It is the westernmost point of the country.
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Land's End

n
(Placename) a granite headland in SW England, on the SW coast of Cornwall: the westernmost point of England
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Land's′ End′


n.
a cape in Cornwall that forms the SW tip of England.
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References in classic literature ?
But such a gale was blowing that I did not dare attempt to land, and so we passed to the north of them, skirted Land's End, and entered the English Channel.
Neither he nor any one else can come here to do us Phaeacians any harm, for we are dear to the gods, and live apart on a land's end that juts into the sounding sea, and have nothing to do with any other people.
And he had plenty of unsettled subjects to meditate upon, though he had been walking to the Land's End.
Take it from one who has studied the sect," says Gentleman, "from John o' Groat's to Land's End, and back again."
"The story of the ship was known, by this, all up the Channel from Land's End to the Forelands, and we could get no crew on the south coast.
Business owner James Du Pavey from Market Drayton usually spends his time running his company in Nantwich, but has spent the last four days preparing, and consequently recovering from, a once-in-a-lifetime journey from Land's End to John O'Groats.
So far, runners have clocked up more than 1,000 miles which, according to the school's map, means they have already made it to John O'Groats and are on their way back to Land's End! Their efforts have so far raised more than PS500.
Land's End (LE) CEO Jerome Griffith said, "Our second quarter results reflect our fifth consecutive quarter of revenue growth and our fourth straight quarter of adjusted EBITDA growth.
More than 60 plants were discovered when police raided a property in Land's End, Holyhead.
The first Land's End to John O'Groats record was set by David Peilow and Kevin Sharpe in a Tesla Roadster in 2011.
Mark Coulter, a lighting buyer for Elland furniture wholesaler Andy Thornton Ltd, is cycling from Land's End to John O' Groats He aimed to raise PS2,700 for the charity CICRA - Crohn's In Childhood Research Association - but more than PS3,000 has already been pledged.
Anthropologists and scholars of tourism and other disciplines look at places in western Europe and the Americas with various renderings of land's end in their name that stand out for their powerful draw to travelers seeking some imagined edge of the world in the early 21st century.