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Peter Church 
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Sandilands
Tony Maguire
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Mill Bay
JThomas
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Danes Dyke, Flamborough Danes Dyke, is a small rural chalk cobbled beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is at the southern end of Danes ...
JThomas
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Nairn Central Beach
Richard Webb
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Whitesands
Perry Dark
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St Bees Beach
Martin Bodman
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Pentewan 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...
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 ...
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 ...
E Gammie 
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Hampton Pier West Beach
John Smitten
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Ramsgate Western Undercliffe Ramsgate Western Undercliffe is a sandy beach between a number of groynes over about 300m. To the west of Ramsgate Ha...
Helmut Zozmann 
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Dover Harbour Beach
Alan Fryer
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Llanbedrog Beach
Lewis Clarke 
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Brean Beach Brean Beach is situated 600 meters south east of Brean in Somerset.
Trevor Rickard
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Porthcurnick Porthcurnick is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 210 metres wide, backed by ...
David Hawgood
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Hightown Beach Hightown Beach is in Sefton 600 meters south west of Hightown.
JThomas
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Bridlington South Cliff Beach
Shazz 
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Port Grenaugh Beach Port Grenaugh Beach is a beach in Middle.
Eric Jones
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Traeth Bach Beach
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