Penwıth, Cornwall

Land’s End – the first and last of England, depending on which way you’re facing, and the far end of the long haul from John o’ Groats. Visitors tend to arrive for the famous signpost, take the photograph and turn back east, as though the map really did run out here.

But Penwith has never behaved much like an ending. Neolithic and Bronze Age communities farmed these moors and raised tombs and stone circles, and the Tinners Way still threads more than 20 ancient sites across the granite. For the people who lived here, with the sea on three sides and a vast sky overhead, this was home rather than the edge of anything.

VoiceMap’s self-guided audio tours let you walk that older map. Cross the moor to Tregeseal Stone Circle with an archaeoastronomer who knows how its builders read the sky. Or follow a landscape photographer from Sennen Cove beyond the signpost to the Enys Dodnan Arch and the quiet sands of Nanjizal, learning where to stand when the light turns.

Plug in your earbuds and take the long way round. The rest of Penwith will wait – dreckly, as the Cornish say.