Land’s End in Cornwall
Tuesday, 10 November 2015 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien General
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Land’s End marker © Mohcyn
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Land’s End is a headland and holiday complex in western
Cornwall . It is the
most westerly point of mainland Cornwall and England, is within the
Penwith peninsula and is about eight miles (13 km) west-south-west of
Penzance at the starting and finishing point of the
A30 road . In May 2012, Land’s End received worldwide publicity as the starting point of the
2012 Summer Olympics torch relay . In 1769, the antiquarian
William Borlase wrote:
“Of this time we are to understand what Edward I. says (Sheringham. p. 129.) that Britain, Wales, and Cornwall, were the portion of Belinus , elder son of Dunwallo , and that that part of the Island, afterwards called England, was divided in three shares, viz. Britain, which reached from the Tweed, Westward, as far as the river Ex ; Wales inclosed by the rivers Severn , and Dee ; and Cornwall from the river Ex to the Land’s-End”.
Coastline towards Land's End © geograph.org.uk - Bob Jones/cc-by-sa-3.0
Tourists have been visiting Land’s End for over two hundred years. In 1987,
Peter de Savary outbid the
National Trust to purchase Land’s End for almost £7 million from David Goldstone. He had two new buildings erected and much of the present theme park development was instigated by him. He sold both Land’s End and John o’ Groats to businessman Graham Ferguson Lacey in 1991. The current owners purchased Land’s End in 1996 and formed a company named
Heritage Great Britain PLC .
Attractions at the theme park include children’s playgrounds and recorded music. Twice a week in August, Land’s End hosts ‘Magic in the Skies’, a night-time firework spectacular with music by British composer Christopher Bond and narrated by actress
Miriam Margolyes . Within the complex is the Land’s End Hotel.
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