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Pennard

Gower, Swansea

A castle and village swallowed by sand dunes, blamed on a fairy curse.

A medieval village and church once stood beside Pennard Castle, but in the 1300s blowing sand buried them. Legend says the lord of the castle insulted the fairies at his wedding feast, and they cursed him by sending a sandstorm to bury everything.

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When
Buried in the 1300s
Where
51.5760, -4.1000
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

A walk across the dunes from Parkmill.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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