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In 1927 Malcolm Campbell achieved a land speed record of 174.88 mph on Pendine Sands. Unfortunately, a month later his Welsh rival, J G Parry-Williams, was killed attempting to beat the record.
Swanage pier is really a landing stage of immense proportions. It was originally some 1400 ft in length, designed to facilitate the export of Purbeck stone.
It is thought that the Romans used Freckleton Naze as a landing place. Sail cloth weaving, boat building and corn milling flourished here until the 1920s.
In the early days of private aviation, the company's founder Tom Wilson often serviced the string-and-sealing-wax aircraft flown by the pioneers who used Freshfield beach as a landing strip
Saltwood dates back to at least the year 833, when it is mentioned as a land grant by King Egbert.
