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Dot Potter
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Gronant Dunes Beach
Rob Noble
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Harbour beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Kingsbarns Beach
Mick Garratt
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Redcar Stray Beach Redcar Stray Beach is 2 kilometers east of Redcar in the county of Redcar and Cleveland.
Thomas Nugent
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Largs Central Beach
Nigel Brown
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Twyni Bach Beach
Pauline Eccles
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Porthgwidden Porthgwidden is in St Ives Bay on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a small, sheltered, sandy beach resort approxima...
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...
Linda Bailey
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Ogmore Slip Beach
Dave Dunford
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St Bees The beach is steeply sloping and pebbly leading to a large area of flat sand closer to the sea. There are steep cliff...
Stacey Harris
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Dymchurch Martello Tower Beach
Andrew Curtis
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Sunderland Hendon South Beach
Hugh Venables
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Challaborough Beach Challaborough Beach is situated about 500 meters north west of Bigbury-on-Sea.
Lewis Clarke 
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Brean Beach Brean Beach is situated 600 meters south east of Brean in Somerset.
Rob Purvis 
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Sandy Bay
Tony Atkin
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Ness Beach
Derek Harper
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Watcombe Watcombe is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 700 metres wide, backed by cliffs.
Cered
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Abercastle Beach Abercastle Beach is situated in the county of Pembrokeshire, 2 kilometers north of Trefin.
David Lally 
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Cove Vean
Sarah Charlesworth
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Mother Ivey\'s Bay
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