Land’s End

Land's End is the most southwesterly point in Britain and part of West Cornwall in the . 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 journey.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: cape in Cornwall, England, UK
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maen Castle and First And Last House.

Archaeological site
is an Iron Age promontory fort or 'cliff castle' close to Land's End in .

Art gallery
is an art gallery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sennen and Skewjack.

Village
is a coastal civil parish and a village in , England, United Kingdom. village is situated approximately eight miles west-southwest of .

Locality
is a plot of land in west , 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

Latitude
50.0663° or 50° 3′ 59″ north
Longitude
-5.7148° or 5° 42′ 53″ west
Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LEQ
Open location code
9C2P378P+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262542889
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Geo­Names ID
2644961
Wiki­data ID
Q169532
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Land’s End”. Photo: Oltau, CC BY 3.0.