World's End is a peninsula surrounded by water, shielded from the open sea by the hills and connecting gravel reefs of Hull. Located at the end of Martins Lane, off Rockland Street in Hingham MA, it is admired for its dramatic topography and magnificent natural landscaping. There are views from Planter's Hill in every direction: northward to Graves Light and the North Shore, northeasterly over the Weir River and Nantasket to the Atlantic, southwesterly to the Turkey Hills and Whitney Woods, Southwesterly over Hingham Harbor and its islands, westerly to the Blue Hills of Milton, and northwesterly to Bumkin Island and the Boston skyline.

Now owned and preserved by the Trustees of the Reservation it is open to the public, for a fee, to walk and enjoy.

 

World's End consists of some 248 acres and over five miles of shoreline. Prized for more than 100 years as a place of outstanding natural beauty, it was once laid out and planned by famed landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmstead, to be developed into 179 house lots. Nine hundred trees were brought in an placed along curved roads. The development was never built but "of all of Olmstead's monumental acheivments in landscape architecture, he was least involved in the development at World's End. Yet it remains the conservecy that is most faithful to his ideal. He believed in working with the existing topography, using native plants with an artful simplicity to create restful pastoral beauty and a "country Park". World's End was Hingham's first country park and is today a wonderful way to enjoy nature.