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Bob Embleton
Photo: Bob Embleton CC BY-SA 2.0
Long Rock Beach
Oxymoron
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Felixstowe North Felixstowe is a resort town and is also home to the country's largest container port on the Orwell Estuary. Felixstow...
SMJ 
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Portmellon Portmellon is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 150 metres wide, backed by hi...
Gerald England
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Paignton Sands
Michael Whitfield
Photo: Michael Whitfield CC BY-SA 2.0
Allonby Beach Allonby Beach is in Cumbria, 200 meters west of Allonby.
Robin Lucas
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Gorran Haven Beach
Lis Burke
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Lunan Bay
Nigel Brown
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Twyni Bach Beach
Christine Matthews 
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Plymouth Hoe East Beach
Simon Carey
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Brighton Kemptown Beach
David Hawgood
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Formby Lifeboat Road Beach
Peter Jordan
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Christchurch Bay Christchurch Bay is a resort beach at Barton on Sea on the south-west coast of Hampshire. It looks out across Christc...
David Martin 
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Porthloo
Brian Henley
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Saunton Sands
colin grice
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Sandsend Beach
Rob Noble
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Harbour beach
Sue Adair
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Meols Beach
Steve Daniels 
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Plas Menai Beach
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...
Phil Catterall
Photo: Phil Catterall CC BY-SA 2.0
Castletown Beach Castletown Beach is 1 kilometers north east of Castletown in the county of Rushen.
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