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    John o' Groats (Scottish Gaelic: Taigh Iain Ghròta) is a village 2.5 mi (4 km) north-east of Canisbay, in the historic county of Caithness, Scotland. It...
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    200km 125miles Land's End 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...
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    fastest person to swim the 900 miles (1,400 km) from Land's End to John o' Groats in 62 days. More than halving the time of the previous record (from...
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    The John o' Groats Trail is a Scottish long-distance walking route from Inverness to John o' Groats, traversing back lanes, footpaths, shorelines and...
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    distance. 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...
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  • term "Ó" in Irish names (like in O'Sullivan) short for "of" or "on" (like in Pot o' Gold, John o' Groats or o'clock) a misspelling of the letter "O" with...
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    na Bà), Gairloch, Ullapool, Scourie, Durness, Castle of Mey, Thurso, John o' Groats, Wick, Dunrobin Castle, Dingwall then back to Muir of Ord and Inverness...
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    Dalkeith | Edinburgh Edinburgh | Dundee | Aberdeen | Inverness | Thurso | John o' Groats The route heads northwest out of Edinburgh with NCN 76, which diverges...
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  • widely known in January 2011 when he completed a 2659-mile run from John o' Groats in far north Scotland to Merzouga, in the Moroccan Sahara desert running...
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    Caithness, on the north coast of Scotland, about 6 miles (10 km) west of John o' Groats. In fine weather there are views from the castle north to the Orkney...
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    Head, and also the most north-easterly point at Duncansby Head near John o' Groats. The Flow Country is the largest blanket bog in Europe, and covers a...
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    part of both the Scottish and British mainlands, slightly northeast of John o' Groats. It lies approximately 20 km (12 mi) east-southeast of Dunnet Head,...
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    United Kingdom. Historically it was the main road between Edinburgh and John o' Groats, and has been called the spine of Scotland. It is one of the three major...
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    London and Cambridge. In 1882, Keith-Falconer rode from Land's End to John o' Groats, the length of Britain, in 13 days. He rode 215 miles (346 km) in his...
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    he took another journey with McGregor: Long Way Down, a trip from John o' Groats in Scotland, to Cape Town, South Africa. This was televised on BBC2...
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  • journey undertaken in 2007 by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, from John o' Groats in Scotland through eighteen countries in Europe and Africa to Cape...
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  • Inveruglas, Argyll and Bute, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park John o' Groats, Highland Keiss, Highland Killin, Stirling, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs...
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  • London to New York, and to 2007's Long Way Down, when they rode from John o' Groats in Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa. The first three episodes of...
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    the end of the tenth stage of the John o' Groats Trail, a long-distance walking trail from Inverness to John o' Groats. Lybster owes its origin to the fishing...
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    Wick in 1836. The town is on the main road (the A99–A9 road) linking John o' Groats with southern Britain. The Far North railway line links Wick railway...
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  • Land's End and John o' Groats. However, in the early 1990s economic downturn his empire collapsed – he sold both Land's End and John o' Groats in 1991 for...
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    north/northeast from the A9 at Latheron to Wick and to the A836 at John o' Groats. It was part of the A9 until the A9 classification was transferred to...
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  • to John-O'-Groats by bicycle (male)". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 8 January 2018. "Fastest return journey from Land's End to John-O'-Groats by bicycle...
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    out to swim from Land's End in the south-west of Great Britain, to John o' Groats in the north, travelling up the west coast of Great Britain and via...
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  • 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...
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    In 2012, Chapman was part of a team that cycled from Land's End to John o' Groats in aid of the Donna Louise Children's Hospice Trust in Stoke-on-Trent...
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  • vector, points from one end of a polymer to the other end Land's End to John o' Groats, the journey from "End to End" across Great Britain End-to-end testing...
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  • children's charities. On one fundraising bike ride from Land's End to John o' Groats in 2012, he raised £58,021 for Caudwell Children. Caudwell has been...
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    Rowe, an American, in 1886. The record for riding from Land's End to John o' Groats on a penny-farthing was set in 1886 by George Pilkington Mills with...
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  • talking to people from as far afield as Exeter in the West Country to John o' Groats at the north-eastern tip of Scotland's mainland. During this trip he...
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