:Marloes Sands
{{Short description|Beach in Wales}}
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File:Marloes Sands MMc.jpgMarloes Sands ({{Langx|cy|Traeth Marloes}}){{Cite web |title=Traeth a Chors Marloes |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cy_gb/traeth-a-chors-marloes |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=National Trust |language=cy}} is an approx. {{convert|1.5|km|mi}} long remote sandy beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, near the village of Marloes. It's broadly curved and surrounded by cliffs. Walking on the beach gives great views of Skokholm Island and Gateholm Island.
Location and access
The beach is located SW from the Marloes village and there is a National Trust car-park nearby (charge per day or free for National Trust members). There is a track that leads from the main road to the beach.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/feb/13/uk-britain-beaches-five |title=Five of the best beaches in the UK |author=Kevin Rushby, Daniel Start |newspaper=The Guardian |date=13 February 2016 |accessdate=13 February 2016}} There is a disused World War II Royal Air Force airfield RAF Dale, above the south-east cliffs of the beach. There are approximately three accesses to the beach which become very useful if you get caught by the tide coming in. Besides the main access from Runwayskiln, there is also access to the north, near Gateholm Island, that requires some scrambling over the rocks and another access to the south that has steps leading to the midsection of the beach.
Geology
The surrounding cliffs are layered with red sandstone and grey shale. A feature of the beach is the Three Chimneys, three vertical lines of hard silurian sandstone and mudstone. There used to be four chimneys, but the fourth crumbled in a severe storm of 1954.{{cite web|title=Marloes Sands|url=http://www.walesinstyle.com/things_to_do/pembrokeshire/marloes_sands.aspx|publisher=Wales in Style}}
Filming location
Marloes Sands was the filming location for:
- Snow White & the Huntsman (September 2011).{{cite web|last=McDowell|first=Martin|title=Filming Snow White and the Huntsman at Marloes Sands|url=http://blog.martinmcdowell.com/filming-snow-white-and-the-huntsman-at-marloes-sands-2015.html|access-date=2012-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128215214/http://blog.martinmcdowell.com/filming-snow-white-and-the-huntsman-at-marloes-sands-2015.html|archive-date=2012-01-28|url-status=dead}}
- The Lion in Winter (1968).{{cite web|title=Filming locations for The Lion in Winter|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/locations|publisher=IMDB}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Marloes Sands}}
- [http://www.marloes.org.uk/ Marloes and St. Brides in Pembrokeshire] - the community website
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