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Mr. HITCHENS: I think it probably adds up to about 600 miles if you -- if -- if you do it from -- from Land's End to John o'Groat's.

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Mention other flights, casually, and speak of the Children's Crusade in search of the Northwest Passage, that was near to having been discontinued owing to a flight of sea gulls from John o 'Groat's to Land's End. This last will establish you as a master of curious knowledge.

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Travelled six miles by the Wick coach and walked the remaining fifteen miles to John o 'Groat's -- Lodged at the "Huna Inn."

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

English history; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple from John o 'Groat's house to Land's

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An interesting account of John o 'Groat's House and the shells was written in the year 1698 by the Rev. John Brand, Commissioner of the

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On our way we again encountered the shepherd who had shown us the site of John o 'Groat's House, and we invited him to look us up in the evening, as we were anxious to get further information about John and his famous house.

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John o 'Groat's is forty-five miles distant, but this, as well as other places of interest in the neighbourhood, is within visiting range by the cars, though such long distances were not attempted with the equine species.

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Since then the variations in dialect and pronunciation which prevailed in different districts of England have largely disappeared, and from Land's End to John o 'Groat's the bilingual system is now securely established, though my mother told me that as a child she once met an old man in Northumberland who could only speak a few words of Irish, and had been deprived of his vote in consequence.

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Land's-end to John o 'Groat's; was printed in every collection of national songs, and drew tears from our military countrymen both in

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On the coast of the Pentland Firth, 1½ miles west of Dunscansbay Head, is the site of John o 'Groat's house.

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