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Land's End promontory, Cornwall, SW England, forming the westernmost extremity of the English mainland. Of wave-carved granite, it has cliffs c.60 ft (20 m) high. Offshore are reefs and rocky islets, on one of which is Longships Lighthouse. Land's End is a major tourist attraction.

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Land's End, England/UK Londeseynde ‘End of the (Main)land’ from the Old English land and ende. This is said to be a translation of the Cornish Pen an Wlas or Pedn an Laaz ‘End of the Land’ with pen ‘promontory’ or ‘end’.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | © The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

land1 an area of ground, as characterized by its physical features. The phrase how the land lies means, what the state of affairs is. The lie of the land (late 17th century) is used both literally, for the way in which the features or characteristics of an area present themselves, or figuratively.
do a land-office business in American usage, do a lot of successful trading. The expression looks back to the period at which new lands were being made available to settlers, and land-offices dealing with sales and settlement of new lands accordingly did a great deal of business.
from Land's End to John o'Groats in the UK, from one end of Britain to the other; Land's End is a rocky promontory in SW Cornwall, forming the westernmost point of England, and by road is approximately 876 miles from John o'Groats, a village at the extreme NE point of the Scottish mainland.
land girl in the UK, a woman doing farm work, especially during the Second World War.
Land League an Irish organization formed in 1879 to campaign for tenants' rights. Its techniques included the use of the boycott against anyone taking on a farm from which the tenant had been evicted.

See also you buy land, you buy stones, fat of the land, when house and land are gone and spent, learning is better than house and land.

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