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Land's End is a promontory on the Penwith peninsula, located near Penzance, Cornwall, at the extreme south-western tip of the island of Great Britain. Land's End is the most western part of mainland England (though not of Great Britain). Visible from Land's End is the Longships Lighthouse. The Longships, a few miles out, is a serpentine and quartz island. Offshore, midway between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly, lies the mythical lost land of Lyonesse, referred to in Arthurian literature.

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 ScottishScottish can refer to: adjective for Scotland see: Scotch the Scottish people. See also: List of famous Scottish people Scottish English. village John o' GroatsJohn o' Groats is a village in Caithness, Scotland, and is usually regarded as the most northerly settlement in mainland Britain. The name has a particular resonance because it is so often used in outlining the length of Britain when races, walks and char (the most northerly settlement in mainland Britain). The phrase Land's End to John o' Groats (strangely, never the other way round) is frequently heard both as a literal journey and as a metaphorThere are broad categories of figurative language which are classified as metaphorical (see Literal and figurative language). The more common meaning of metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to paint one concept with the attributes normally associat for great or all-encompassing distance.

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