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  2. Land's End - Wikipedia

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    Land's End to John o' Groats in Scotland is a distance of 838 miles (1,349 km) by road and this Land's End to John o' Groats distance is often used to define charitable events such as end-to-end walks and races in the UK. Land's End to the northernmost point of England is a distance of 556 miles (895 km) by road. [5]

  3. Land's End to John o' Groats - Wikipedia

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    Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities, in the southwest and northeast.The traditional distance by road is 874 miles (1,407 km) and takes most cyclists 10 to 14 days; the record for running the route is nine days.

  4. Lizard Point, Cornwall - Wikipedia

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    Lizard Point is the most southerly point on mainland Great Britain at 49° 57' 30" N. [2] With the exception of parts of the Isles of Scilly, it is the southernmost part of England and the wider United Kingdom.

  5. Extreme points of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the extreme points of the United Kingdom: the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.Traditionally the extent of the island of Great Britain has stretched "from Land's End to John o' Groats" (that is, from the extreme southwest of mainland England to the far northeast of mainland Scotland).

  6. Isles of Scilly - Wikipedia

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    The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago of five inhabited islands (six if Gugh is counted separately from St Agnes) and numerous other small rocky islets (around 140 in total) lying 45 kilometres (24 + 1 ⁄ 2 nautical miles) off Land's End. [36] Troy Town Farm on St Agnes is the southernmost settlement of the United Kingdom.

  7. Britannia (atlas) - Wikipedia

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    Britannia is a county-by-county description of Great Britain and Ireland. It is a work of chorography : a study that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history. Rather than write a history, Camden wanted to describe in detail the Great Britain of his time, and to show how the traces of the past could be discerned in the existing ...

  8. Cornwall - Wikipedia

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    Cliffs at Land's End The modern English name "Cornwall" is a compound of two terms coming from two different language groups: "Corn-" originates from the Proto-Celtic *kornu - (" horn ", presumed in reference to " headland "), and is cognate with the English word "horn" and Latin "cornu" (both deriving from the Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-).

  9. Ordnance Survey - Wikipedia

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    Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain use the Ordnance Survey National Grid rather than latitude and longitude to indicate position. The Grid is known technically as OSGB36 (Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936) and was introduced after the 1936–1953 retriangulation.