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Chris Gunns
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Port Erin Beach Port Erin Beach is located 300 meters west of Port Erin in the county of Rushen.
Phil Williams
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Skipsea Skipsea Beach is a long rural beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length and it is made up ...
OLU
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Llanina Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Spittal Spittal Beach is a gently sloping resort beach approximately one kilometre long situated immediately south of the mou...
Robin Lucas
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Portmellon Beach Portmellon Beach is situated 200 meters east of Portmellon in Cornwall.
Hugh Craddock
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Daymer Bay Daymer Bay is at the mouth of the River Camel opposite the town of Padstow on the north coast of Cornwall. This is a ...
Derek Harper
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Paignton Preston Sands
Oliver Dixon 
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Seahouses South Beach
Gordon McKinlay
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Ingoldmells Beach
Sarah Eve Armstrong 
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Earlsferry Shell Bay
Trevor Harris
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Chesil Beach Chesil Beach is about 4 kilometers north west of Portland. Dogs allowed on the seaward side from September to April.
Russell Lett
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Muchalls Beach
Andy Stephenson
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Sandgate Town Centre Beach
Richard Webb
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Whitesands
E Gammie 
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Hythe Beach
Row 
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Burnham Overy Staithe beach
Nigel Chadwick
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Broadstairs Stone Bay Broadstairs Stone Bay beach is approximately 900 meters north of Broadstairs.
Ron Strutt
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St Mary\'s Bay
Derek Harper
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Hollicombe Hollicombe is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach with rock pools, approximately 400 metres wide, backed...
Paul Hutchinson
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Elbury Cove
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