John o’ Groats is a village in the far north of Scotland, on Great Britain’s northeastern tip, and is popular with tourists as one end of the longest distance between two inhabited points on the British mainland (with Land’s End  876 mi (1,410 km) southwest) but it is not the northernmost point of mainland Great Britain, which is nearby Dunnet Head.  That was condensed from Wikipedia, which goes on to add:  John o’ Groats attracts large numbers of tourists … in 2005, tourist guide Lonely Planet described the village as a “seedy tourist trap” and in 2010 John o’ Groats received a Carbuncle Award from Urban Realm magazine for being “Scotland’s most dismal town.”  Yikes! Major redevelopment work in 2013 aimed to revitalise the area.   The John o’ Groats House Hotel was built at the site of Jan de Groot’s house, and was established in 1875.   It was closed for several years, and fell into disrepair until undergoing a radical transformation, and reopened for business in August 2013.  Perhaps more than you wanted to know, but this particular card was mailed in 1989 with two different stamps and clear postmark from the village.  Grade: 1