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Peter Shimmon
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Southsea East The bathing water is a popular resort beach near to Southsea shopping centre south of Portsmouth. The entire length o...
Oliver Dixon 
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Kilve Beach
Thomas Nugent
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Wemyss Bay
Bob Jones
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Rinsey Head Beach Rinsey Head Beach is situated about 3 kilometers south west of Breage.
Rob Farrow
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Minehead Terminus Minehead Terminus is on the Somerset coast overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is a sand and shingle beach resort, ap...
Maurice D Budden 
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Downderry Downderry is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sand, shingle and pebble beach, approximately 1.1 kilomet...
Anthony Foster
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Seaton Sluice Beach
Peter Watkins
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Cotswold Country Park and Beach The bathing water is in Keynes Lake 32 in the Cotswolds Water Park near Somerford Keynes. The beach is 140 metres lon...
Lewis Clarke 
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Charmouth West Charmouth West is in Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a shingle and sand beach resort, approximately 680 metres wi...
Chris Shaw
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Baglan Beach Baglan Beach is 3 kilometers west of Port Talbot in the county of Neath Port Talbot.
Sarah Charlesworth
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Spittal Beach
Andrew King 
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Penzance Mounts Bay
Robert Lamb
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Margate Westbrook Bay
pam fray 
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Ramsgate Sands Ramsgate Sands beach is in Kent, 3 kilometers south of Broadstairs.
Sue Adair
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Leasowe Bay
Steve Daniels 
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Whitecliff Bay At the eastern tip of the Isle of Wight, Whitecliffe Bay is famous for the well-exposed sedimentary rock sequence whi...
Arriva
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Cowes To the west of the town, Cowes beach is mostly gravel and slopes into deep water with strong currents. At high tide t...
Tony Atkin
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Bantham Beach Bantham Beach is approximately 1 kilometers east of Bigbury-on-Sea.
JThomas
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Nairn Central Beach
Bob Ford
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Portland Harbour Castle Cove Portland Harbour Castle Cove is in Portland Harbour on the Dorset coast. It is a sheltered sandy cove, approximately ...
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