Qualla: Land's End https://qualla.com/land-s-end en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Land's End https://qualla.com/land-s-end Land's End: Introduction https://qualla.com/land-s-end/ Britons have been measuring distance from this place for centuries. From the bunting-strung signpost at Carn Kez, the distances are spelled out for anyone who pays the photographer: 874 miles to John o' Groats, 3,147 to New York, and to wherever you have come from, exactly. The headland itself is modest, a low promontory of speckled granite. Far more dramatic cliffs rise immediately to either side. What gives Land's End its hold on the imagination is not its geography but its grammar. It is the end of something. East lies the English Channel, west the Celtic Sea and, beyond, the open Atlantic. Two hundred and seventy million years ago a body of molten rock pushed up here and slowly cooled. Everything since has been arrival and departure.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/land-s-end-wp/gbgu-lands-end-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Land's End: Not Quite the Westernmost https://qualla.com/land-s-end/ Land's End is the most westerly point of mainland England. It is not, despite the marketing, the most westerly point of mainland Great Britain. That title belongs by a slim margin to Corrachadh Mor, a headland on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, which sits 23...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/land-s-end-wp/gbgu-lands-end-not-quite-the-westernmost.mp3 0:06 2 full Land's End: End to End https://qualla.com/land-s-end/ The phrase end to end is shorthand in Britain for an 838-mile journey to John o' Groats on the far north-east coast of Scotland, undertaken by walkers, runners, cyclists, motorists and the occasional unicycle rider. The earliest recorded crossing was made on foot in 1879 by R. H....

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/land-s-end-wp/gbgu-lands-end-end-to-end.mp3 0:06 3 full Land's End: Granite Born of Permian Heat https://qualla.com/land-s-end/ The cliffs are made of granite, an igneous rock that resists weathering and leaves the kind of steep, blocky cliff faces that climbers love and ships fear. Two varieties are visible at the headland. Close to the hotel, the granite is coarse-grained, with phenocrysts of orthoclase...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/land-s-end-wp/gbgu-lands-end-granite-born-of-permian-heat.mp3 0:06 4 full Land's End: Dr Syntax and Dr Johnson https://qualla.com/land-s-end/ Two of the promontories at Land's End carry the most peculiar names of any in the British Isles. The westernmost is Dr Syntax's Head, christened after a fictional character invented by William Combe in his 1809 comic verse The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, a sat...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/land-s-end-wp/gbgu-lands-end-dr-syntax-and-dr-johnson.mp3 0:06 5 full Land's End: Lyonesse and the Tourist Complex https://qualla.com/land-s-end/ The Longships, a low chain of rocky islets, sit just over a mile offshore. Twenty-eight miles to the south-west lie the Isles of Scilly. The Seven Stones reef, where the Torrey Canyon grounded in 1967, lies between them. In Arthurian tradition, all three are remnants of the lost ...

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