LONGNIDDRY, SCOTLAND

The coastal village of Longniddry is 12miles (19km) east of Edinburgh. People have lived here for over 5000 years. In the time of the Goddodin tribe who spoke a form of Welsh, it was called Llan Newydd Tref ‘church of the new settlement’. Over the years the name changed until in the 18th century anglicisers replaced the too Scots ‘Lang’ with ‘Long’ and Longniddry it became. Longniddry has not one but three beaches or ‘bents’; stretches of long golden sand backed by grassy dunes.