Pendine
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- This article is about the Carmarthern village of Pendine. For the Pendine Park Estate in Wrexham, North Wales, see Summerhill, Wrexham.
Pendine (Welsh: Pentywyn) is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on Carmarthen Bay.
The seaside resort is best known for Pendine Sands, where Malcolm Campbell and J.G. Parry-Thomas set the world land speed record five times between 1924 and 1927. Parry-Thomas was killed while making a final record-breaking attempt on Pendine Sands in 1927. The village is home to the Pendine Museum of Speed which houses Parry-Thomas' restored car Babs.
The BBC show Top Gear use the beach for driving sports cars in circles and drag races.

