Land’s End is the westernmost point of mainland England, a granite headland on the tip…

Land’s End is the westernmost point of mainland England, a granite headland on the tip of the Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall where 200-foot cliffs drop into the Atlantic. The ancient Greeks called it Belerion, meaning “the shining land,” because of the tin trade that drew Mediterranean merchants here thousands of years ago. In Cornish legend, a lost kingdom called Lyonesse once stretched from here to the Isles of Scilly before being swallowed by the sea in a single night. Its Cornish name is Penn an Wlas, meaning “end of the earth,” and the 874-mile journey from here to John o’ Groats in Scotland has been the definitive measure of Britain’s length since the first recorded attempt in 1879.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​