Pendine

Pendine (Pentywyn in Welsh) is a small village in Carmarthenshire on the south Wales coast, best known for Pendine Sands, a 7-mile stretch of hard, flat sand used for world land speed record attempts in the 1920s. Notably, Malcolm Campbell set land speed records here in 1924 and 1925, and J G Parry-Thomas made his final fatal attempt in 1927, with his car 'Babs' recently recovered from the sand and restored for display at the nearby Museum of Speed. The sands were also used by Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison as a runway for their transatlantic flights. Today the beach remains popular for recreation, and the Ministry of Defence uses part of the area for military training.