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Peter Facey
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East Head Beach
Anne Burgess
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Cushendun Beach
Peter S 
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Hampstead Heath (Ladies Pond) The Ladies' Pond is a former reservoir on the eastern side of Hampstead Heath. There is no beach but there are grassy...
Pauline Burden
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Brean Brean is on the Somerset coast overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is a sand and mud beach resort, approximately 2.7 ...
Michael Murray
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Trevaunance Cove Trevaunance Cove is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and rock beach resort, approximately 250 metres wide...
Jim Champion
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Poole Harbour Sandbanks Beach Poole Harbour Sandbanks Beach is situated 2 kilometers north of Sandbanks in Dorset.
Ulrich Hartmann
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Trevone Bay
originalpickaxe
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Leigh Bell Wharf Beach
Anne Burgess
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Scourie Beach
Peter Eckersley
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Seascale Beach
Chris J Dixon
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St Anthony Head Beach
Richard Webb
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Port Seton Beach Port Seton Beach is situated about 500 meters north east of Cockenzie and Port Seton.
Eirian Evans
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Penrhyn 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...
Colin Smith
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Collieston Beach Collieston Beach is situated about 200 meters south east of Collieston.
Philip Halling
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Bude Crooklets Beach Bude Crooklets Beach is situated in the county of Cornwall, 900 meters north west of Bude.
wfmillar
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Blyth South Beach Blyth South Beach is situated about 3 kilometers east of Blyth.
Roger W Haworth
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St Annes North The bathing water is extremely flat in profile and sandy with up to 300 metres of sand exposed at low tide. Sand dune...
John H Darch 
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Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow Rayrigg Meadow is located on the eastern edge of Lake Windermere. The beach at Rayrigg Meadow is shallow sloping and ...
OLU
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Aberystwyth South Beach Aberystwyth South Beach is approximately 600 meters south west of Aberystwyth.
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