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Chris Court
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Stevenston Beach
Ross
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Brown\'s Bay Brown\'s Bay beach is a beach in County Antrim.
RichTea
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St. Just Priests Cove
Jim Strang 
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West Voe Sands
Mike Pennington
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Ainsdale The bathing water is a resort beach on the Sefton coastline in North West England. Ainsdale beach has a large expanse...
Graham Horn
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Brighstone Beach The beach can be challenging to find suitable parking; however, it is an easily accessible strolling distance away. T...
Reading Tom from Reading UK
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Martyrs Bay Beach Located just south of the pier, lies a sandy cove that holds a gruesome history. In the year 806, this bay became the...
Andrew Woodhall
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Silecroft Beach
JThomas 
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Cambois North Beach Cambois North Beach is approximately 4 kilometers north of Blyth.
Kenneth  Allen 
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Portrush West Strand Beach Portrush West Strand Beach is situated 300 meters south of Portrush in County Antrim.
Chris Gunns
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Laxey 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...
Robin Webster
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Worthing The bathing water is a resort beach on the south coast in West Sussex, backed by an urban area with the town centre c...
Robin Lucas
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Dawlish Warren Dawlish Warren is on the south coast of Devon and is a long sand spit extending across the mouth of the Exe Estuary. ...
Sandra White
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Amble Links Beach Amble Links Beach is located 2 kilometers east of Amble in the county of Northumberland.
Ben Salter from Wales
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Penarth Beach
Eileen Henderson
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Southwold The Denes Southwold the Denes beach is a sand and shingle beach. It is backed by sand dunes and set in a quiet rural area with ...
Robin Drayton
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Crackington Haven Crackington Haven is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a remote, sheltered bay of mainly shingle, sand and pebble...
Jonathan Thacker 
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Walney Biggar Bank Walney Biggar Bank bathing water is the most southerly of the three beaches on Walney Island. The beach is made up of...
Steve  F
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Aberystwyth Tanybwlch Beach Aberystwyth Tanybwlch Beach is 1 kilometers south of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion.
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