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Pendine

The vast, seven-mile-long expanse of sand, which makes Pendine a popular place with families was used in the 1920s by Sir Malcolm Campbell and others for attempting land speed records. In 1924, Sir Malcolm broke the World Motor Flying Kilometre Record here by averaging 146 miles per hour. He later raised that to 174mph, and went on to achieve speeds in excess of 300mph on the salt flats at Bonneville, Utah. In 1927, while attempting to beat Sir Malcolm’s record, Welshman JG Parry Thomas was decapitated in an accident on the beach, and his car, Babs, lay buried in the sand before being unearthed in 1969 and restored by Owen Wyn Owen, a lecturer from Bangor. Babs can now be seen in all its gleaming glory at the Museum of Speed, a dramatic modern building overlooking the beach, which explores the history of this stretch of sand where so many records were broken. However, not all the speed attempts involved land vehicles. It was from these sands in 1933 that the intrepid aviatrix Amy Johnson and her husband Jim Mollinson set off in a de Havilland Dragon Rapide for a non-stop flight across the Atlantic. In 2004, all vehicles were banned from the beach because of possible bombs buried on it, as at one time it was owned by the MOD.

The Parish Church of St Margaret, with its saddleback tower, has a cast iron gravestone in its churchyard. The building largely dates from the 14th century, though it was restored in Victorian times. No one knows, which St Margaret the church is dedicated to, so one of the windows features three of them - St Margaret of Antioch, St Margaret of Scotland and the shadowy local saint St Margaret Marloes. As the lord of the manor at the time of the dedication, Sir Guy de Bryan, claimed descent from St Margaret of Scotland, she is the likeliest candidate.