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  2. Land's End - Wikipedia

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    Land's End[ 1] ( Cornish Standard Written Form: Penn an Wlas or Pedn an Wlas) [ 2] is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the Penwith peninsula about eight miles (13 km) west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road. To the east of it is the English Channel, and to the ...

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

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    John o' Groats. 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. Off-road walkers typically walk about ...

  4. Longships Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    Longships Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse about 1.25 mi (2.0 km) off the coast of Land's End in Cornwall, England. It is the second lighthouse to be built on Carn Bras, the highest of the Longships islets which rises 39 feet (12 m) above high water level. In 1988 the lighthouse was automated, and the keepers withdrawn.

  5. Viking activity in the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    In the last decade of the eighth century, Viking raiders sacked several Christian monasteries in northern Britain, and over the next three centuries they launched increasingly large scale invasions and settled in many areas, especially in eastern Britain and Ireland, the islands north and west of Scotland and the Isle of Man .

  6. Isles of Scilly - Wikipedia

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    The Isles of Scilly ( / ˈsɪli / SIL-ee; Standard Written Form: Syllan, Enesek Syllan, or Enesow Syllan) [ 6] are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. One of the islands, St Agnes, is over four miles (six kilometres) further south than the most southerly point of the British mainland at Lizard Point .

  7. Crown Estate - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Crown lands in England and Wales begins with the Norman Conquest in 1066. [20] By right of conquest, William I (r. 1066–1087) owned all the land in England and was able to redistribute it based on feudal principles. Tenants-in-chief received land directly from the king in return for military service.

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