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Paul Beaman
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St Annes St Annes is a resort beach with a small pier extending into the Irish Sea. Sand dunes run along the edge of the sandy...
Oliver Dixon
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Dornoch Beach
Paul Buckingham
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Craster Beach Craster Beach is situated in the county of Northumberland, 100 meters north east of Craster.
Paul McIlroy
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Northcott Mouth Northcott Mouth is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a small rocky beach, approximately 350 metres wide, with a s...
Andrew Smith
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Whitby Whitby Beach is a large beach resort situated on the Yorkshire coast. The sandy beach is approximately one kilometre ...
Trevor Rickard
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Laugharne Beach
Trevor Rickard
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Lynmouth Beach
Helen Wilkinson
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Tunstall Beach
fabiolah
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Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Beach
Ray Stanton
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Eastoke The bathing water is situated on the south coast of Hayling Island facing across the Solent. The bathing water is pri...
Tony Atkin 
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Northcott Mouth Beach
Robert Edwards
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Clacton Beach Martello Tower Clacton is a busy seaside resort. Clacton Martello tower beach is wide, sandy and gently shelving, and backed by the ...
Daniel Kraft
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Shell Beach
M J Richardson 
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Yellowcraig Beach
Ian Murfitt 
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Largo East Beach
Rob Farrow
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Tregonhawke Tregonhawke beach is in Whitsand Bay on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a long sand and rock beach approximately 1...
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...
Peter Barr 
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Red Wharf Bay Red Wharf Bay beach lies 500 meters east of Red Wharf Bay, Isle of Anglesey.
Graham Ellis
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Troon South Beach
Alan Swain
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Swanage Central Swanage Central is within Swanage Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 960 metres wide ...
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