Nearest Seaside Award Beaches Carmarthenshire

Cefn Sidan is a fine sandy beach backed by dunes that sits at the edge of the Pembrey Burrows and looks out into Carmarthen Bay in South Wales. The beach stretches for nearly 8 miles and at low tide you can have a long walk to the water. The fine sand does make it hard to create large sandcastles. The beach is large and exposed so it can be windy but a geat place to walk and the beach is popular for kite-buggying and kite-mountainboarding. Cefn Sidan forms part of the Pembrey Country Park and is also known as Pembrey Beach. Facilities include car parking, lifeguards (summer only), cafe/restaurant and beach shop. As this is a large beach with large areas of sand dunes it does have some naturism although this is not allowed.

Pendine Sands beach is an 11 km (7 mile) stretch of flat sand within Carmarthen Bay that stretches from Gilman Point and the village of Pendine in the west to Laugharne Sands in the east. The beach can have some parts closed due to MoD restrictions. Due to the beaches length and flat firm sand, it was used for speed record attempts, with Malcolm Campbell (1924), J. G. Parry-Thomas (1926 & 27), Forresti in Djelmo (1927), Donald Campbell in 2000 and Guy Martin’s bicycle record. The size and flat nature of the beach make this beach very popular with land yachting, kite-buggying, power kiting and horse riding. Just to the West, you have the small bay of Morfa Bychan which is well worth the short walk. Facilities at the beach and in the village include parking, toilets, cafe, pubs, beach shops and seasonal lifeguards.