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Les Hull 
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Walney West Shore Walney West Shore bathing water is a gently sloping shingle beach with a large expanse of sand exposed at low water. ...
OLU
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Aberystwyth South Beach Aberystwyth South Beach is approximately 600 meters south west of Aberystwyth.
Tim Westcott
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Perranporth Perranporth bathing water is at the southern end of Perran Sands on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach ...
Andrew Hill
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Haverigg Haverigg is a gently sloping gravel and sandy beach for which levels out to flat sand. At low tide the water retreats...
Jamie Stokes
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Worthing East Pier Beach
Peter Church
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Singing Sands
Trevor Rickard
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Porthbeor Beach Porthbeor Beach is located in Cornwall 3 kilometers south of Gerrans.
Maurice D Budden 
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Charlestown Beach Charlestown Beach is approximately 300 meters east of Charlestown.
Donald MacDonald
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Balfours Bay, Traigh Ghael Traigh Ghael is a charming stretch of sand that sits nestled amid the striking pink granite rocks of Ross of Mull on ...
Bob Jones
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Carradale Beach Carradale Beach is approximately 400 meters north of Carradale.
Daniel Kraft
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Shell Beach
Kenneth Allen
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Magilligan Benone Strand Beach
Andrew Curtis
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Sunderland Hendon South Beach
Nigel Mykura
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Weymouth Lodmoor Beach
Robin Lucas
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Gelliswick Bay
Les Hull
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Annan Beach Annan Beach is in Dumfries and Galloway 2 kilometers south east of Annan.
Gordon Griffiths 
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Dymchurch Dymchurch is a resort beach situated along a 20 kilometre stretch of beach in Hythe Bay, Kent. Hythe Bay stretches fr...
Julian P Guffogg
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Hastings Fairlight Glen Beach
R J McNaughton
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Tynemouth Long Sands North Tynemouth Long Sands North Beach is a gently sloping sandy resort beach. The designated bathing beach measures approx...
John Webber
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Ryde West Beach
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