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Basher Eyre 
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Hillhead The bathing water is a gently shelving beach which faces south-west, across the end of Southampton Water and the Sole...
Mike Pennington
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Seahouses North Beach
william
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Southend Thorpe Bay
wfmillar
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Kilchattan Bay
Nigel Chadwick
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Minnis Bay, Birchington The bathing water is situated on the north Kent coast adjacent to the village of Birchington. It is a gently shelving...
K  A 
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St Annes North Beach
Simon Hookey
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Hastings Bulverhythe Beach
JThomas
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Wilsthorpe Wilsthorpe Beach is an extensive rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is 1.8 kilometres in length wi...
Derek Harper
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Paignton Preston Sands
Alan Fryer
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Llanbedrog Beach
Ann Cook 
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Mossyard Beach
Helen Wilkinson
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Tunstall Tunstall is currently closed, there is no safe access to bathers due to coastal erosion. Tunstall Beach is a long rur...
bunberyist
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Gyllyngvase Gyllyngvase is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 350 metres wide, backed by t...
Simon Carey
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Hove West Beach
Jake Watson
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Goring Beach
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...
Janet Richardson
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Bexhill Bexhill is a resort beach situated between Eastbourne and Hastings. The beach is predominantly shingle, with shallow ...
Bob Embleton
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Penzance Promenade Beach
Christine Matthews
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Holy Island Beach
Andrew Smith
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Crail Beach Crail Beach is approximately 500 meters north east of Crail.
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