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Jim Bain
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St. Andrews West Sands
John Rostron 
Photo: John Rostron  CC BY-SA 2.0
Pentle Bay
Kenneth  Allen 
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Carnlough Beach Carnlough Beach is situated in the county of County Antrim, 500 meters south of Carnlough.
Andy Stephenson
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Sandgate Town Centre Beach
Alexey Komarov
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Birling Gap Birling Gap beach is located in East Sussex 200 meters south west of Birling Gap.
Bob Jones
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Brightlingsea Brightlingsea is an ancient maritime town (Cinque Port). The beach is restricted and consists of gravel, sand and mud...
Colin Vosper
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Smugglers Cove
Andrew King 
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Penzance Mounts Bay
Andrew Hill
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Haverigg Beach
Phil Catterall
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Skinningrove Beach
Trish Steel
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Marazion Mounts Bay is on the south coast of Cornwall. There are four designated bathing waters located around the bay - Wherr...
John Holmes
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Braystones Beach Braystones Beach is approximately 2 kilometers west of Beckermet.
Alex Harris
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Nairn East Beach
Peter Eckersley
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Seascale Beach
Chris Downer
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Poole Canford Cliffs Chine Poole Canford Cliffs Chine forms part of the 15 kilometre coastline of Poole Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sandy b...
Chris Plunkett
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Yaverland Yaverland beach on the south east coast of the Isle of Wight is at the north end of Sandown Bay. The sandy beach slop...
Mick Garratt
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Seaton Carew North Beach
David Lally 
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Poole Sandbanks Peninsular Poole Sandbanks Peninsular forms part of the 15 kilometre coastline of Poole Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sandy b...
Phil Williams
Photo: Phil Williams CC BY-SA 2.0
Holyhead Beach
Roger Gilbertson
Photo: Roger Gilbertson CC BY-SA 2.0
Achmelvich Beach Achmelvich Beach is situated in the county of Highland, 400 meters west of Achmelvich.
Beach explorer UK Source for water samples and information: the Environmental Protection Agency, users of the site and local municipalities.
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.