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Keith Burroughs
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Fleetwood Fleetwood beach sits at the top end of the Fylde coastline, facing north into Morecambe Bay. The beach is mainly sand...
Jim Smillie
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Aberdour Black Sands Aberdour Black Sands beach is in Fife 400 meters south east of Aberdour.
Eric Jones
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Morfa Nefyn Beach
Evelyn Simak
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Sea Palling Sea Palling is a small coastal hamlet and has a wide sandy beach with a series of shallow bays formed by man-made ree...
nick macneill
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Newhaven West Quay Beach
Alison Rawson
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Seahouses North Seahouses North Beach is a long remote beach situated on the north Northumberland coast. Measuring nearly two kilomet...
Tony Maguire
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Mill Bay
Trish Steel
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Great Yarmouth North Great Yarmouth is a large, busy and popular resort on the east coast of Norfolk. Yarmouth North beach is wide and san...
Nigel Cox
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Frinton Beach
Ashley Dace 
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Lowestoft (South of Claremont Pier) Lowestoft's South Beach is the main resort beach in North Suffolk. It is a is a fine sandy beach backed by a promenad...
Anne Burgess
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The Sands of Breckon Beach
Anne Burgess
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Ballygalley Beach Ballygalley Beach lies 100 meters north west of Ballygally, County Antrim.
Philip Halling 
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Godrevy Towans Godrevy Towans is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and rock beach, approximately 600 metres wide. Backed ...
Andy Brass
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Whitby Beach
Donald Brydon
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Newbiggin-by-the-Sea South Beach
Chris Downer
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Shoeburyness Beach
Alexey Komarov
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Birling Gap Birling Gap beach is located in East Sussex 200 meters south west of Birling Gap.
Evelyn Simak 
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Winterton Beach
DS Pugh
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Seaton Carew Centre Seaton Carew is a small resort on Tees Bay to the south of Hartlepool. Seaton Carew Centre Beach is part of an extens...
Mike Faherty 
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Calshot Calshot beach is part of a shingle spit on the Hampshire coast which extends westward into the southern end of Southa...
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