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Jonathan Thacker 
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Hartlepool North Sands
OLU
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Southwick Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Wembury Beach
Alan Bowring
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Limpert Bay
Nick Smith 
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Southsea East Beach
Ross
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Brown\'s Bay Brown\'s Bay beach is a beach in County Antrim.
Steve Daniels 
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Bispham Bispham bathing water is mainly sandy with some patches of rocks and pebbles. It slopes slightly to the sea at low w...
Phil Catterall
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Skinningrove Beach
David Martin 
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Orchard Bay This charming beach is privately owned, but is accessible to the public. However, visitors are kindly reminded to mai...
Tanya Dedyukhina
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Great Yarmouth Power Station Beach
Row
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Polnare Cove
Ian Capper
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Hemsby Hemsby is a popular resort with a wide sandy beach and is backed by dunes. Hemsby Beach is approximately 10 kilometer...
Matt Buck from London United Kingdom
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Oddicombe Oddicombe is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 700 metres wide, backed by cliffs.
Les Hull 
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Walney West Shore Walney West Shore bathing water is a gently sloping shingle beach with a large expanse of sand exposed at low water. ...
E Gammie 
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Hythe Beach
Chris Downer
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Bournemouth Pier Bournemouth Pier forms part of the 15 kilometre coastline of Poole Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sandy beach resor...
Dorcas Sinclair
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Sandside Bay
Rob Farrow
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Kingsand Kingsand is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and shingle beach resort, approximately 200 metres wide, clo...
Lewis Clarke 
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Teignmouth Holcombe Beach
Dr Astrid Stilma
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Camber Camber Sands is situated at the mouth of the river Rother in Rye Bay, East Sussex. The bathing water is a wide expans...
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