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Sandy B 
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Swanage North Beach
Trevor Rickard
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Shipload Bay
David Lally 
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Cove Vean
Ian S 
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Gorllewin y Rhyl - Rhyl West
Ben Gamble
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Frensham Great Pond The designated bathing area is situated on Frensham Great Pond's northern edge. Bathing is restricted to a marked san...
John Davies
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Holland Beach
Kate Jewell
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Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve
Nicholas Mutton
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Aberaeron North Beach Aberaeron North Beach lies in Ceredigion, 600 meters north of Aberaeron.
Jonathan Thacker 
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Walney Sandy Gap
Terry Johnson
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Seaham Beach Seaham Beach is a gently sloping resort beach with the designated area measuring approximately 800 metres in length. ...
Sarah Charlesworth
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Mother Ivey`s Bay Mother Ivey's Bay is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a rural sandy beach, approximately 480 metres wide, backed...
Alexander P Kapp
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Skinburness Beach
Dave Smethurst
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Traeth Tywyn Mawr Beach
John Bayes
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Selsey The bathing water is situated on the south coast between Pagham Harbour and Selsey Bill in West Sussex. The bathing w...
Daniel Kraft
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Shell Beach
Martin Bodman
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Thurlestone South Beach
Chris Downer 
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Saundersfoot Glen Beach
scillystuff
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Beachlands Central Beach Beachlands Central Beach lies in Hampshire, 1000 meters south west of Mengham.
Alison Rawson
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Littlestone Littlestone-on-Sea is a resort beach in the middle of a 20 kilometre (km) stretch of beach in Hythe Bay, Kent. Hythe ...
Ken Ballinger
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Praa Sands East Praa Sands is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 1.3 kilometres wide, backed b...
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