Proper noun
Ushant
An island located in Finistère department, Brittany, France, at the southwestern end of the English Channel, marking the northwesternmost point of metropolitan France.
I think Ushant describes it pretty well, with that epigraph from Tom Brown's School Days: "I'm the poet of White Horse Vale, sir, with Liberal notions under my cap!” For some reason those lines stuck in my head, and I've never forgotten them. This image became something I had to be. Conrad Aiken