Land’s End
Land's End is the most southwesterly point in Britain and part of West Cornwall in the South West. It is not a town or village but rather a former small holding which is well known for being the starting/ending point for the Land's End to John o'Groats journey.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: cape in Cornwall, England, UK
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maen Castle and First And Last House.
Maen Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort or 'cliff castle' close to Land's End in Cornwall.
The Round House
Art gallery
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Round House is an art gallery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sennen and Skewjack.
Sennen
Village
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sennen is a coastal civil parish and a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Sennen village is situated approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance.
Skewjack
Locality
Photo: Sheila Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skewjack is a plot of land in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated about 1.5 miles east of Land's End on the B3315 road. It was the site of RAF Sennen, and is now the site of a Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe building.
Land’s End
- Categories: cape, headland, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Sennen, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.0663° or 50° 3′ 59″ northLongitude
-5.7148° or 5° 42′ 53″ westElevation
75 feet (23 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LEQOpen location code
9C2P378P+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 262542889OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limited
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Land’s End” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لاندز إند”
- Azerbaijani: “Lends End”
- Basque: “Land’s End”
- Basque: “Land´s End”
- Belarusian: “Лэндз-Энд”
- Breton: “Land’s End”
- Breton: “Pedn an Wlas”
- Breton: “Penn an Wlas”
- Breton: “Penn-an-Wlas”
- Bulgarian: “Ландс Енд”
- Burmese: “လန်းစ်အန်း”
- Catalan: “Land’s End”
- Cebuano: “Land’s End”
- Chinese: “兰兹角”
- Chinese: “地角”
- Chinese: “蘭茲角”
- Cornish: “Pedn an Wlas”
- Cornish: “Penn an Wlas”
- Czech: “Land’s End”
- Danish: “Land’s End”
- Danish: “Lands End”
- Dutch: “Land’s End”
- Esperanto: “Fino de la Tero”
- Esperanto: “Land’s End”
- Finnish: “Land’s End”
- French: “Land’s End”
- Galician: “Land’s End”
- German: “Land’s End”
- German: “Landsend”
- Hebrew: “לנדס אנד”
- Icelandic: “Land’s End”
- Icelandic: “Penn an Wlas”
- Irish: “Ceann Tíre”
- Irish: “Land’s End”
- Irish: “Pedn an Wlas”
- Irish: “Penn an Wlas”
- Italian: “Land’s End”
- Japanese: “ランズ・エンド”
- Japanese: “ランズエンド岬”
- Latin: “Antivestaeum promunturium”
- Latvian: “Lendsends”
- Lithuanian: “Žemės Kraštas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Land’s End”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Land’s End”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penn an Wlas”
- Norwegian: “Land’s End”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Penwæðsteort”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Penwiðsteort”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Penwihtsteort”
- Persian: “لندز اند”
- Polish: “Land’s End”
- Portuguese: “Land’s End”
- Russian: “Лендс-Энд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cinn Tìre”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Land’s End”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pedn an Wlas”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Penn an Wlas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Land’s End”
- Slovenian: “Land’s End”
- Spanish: “Land’s End”
- Swedish: “Land’s End”
- Ukrainian: “Лендс-Енд”
- Vlaams: “Land’s End”
- Welsh: “Pedn an Wlas”
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