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Richard Webb
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Seton Sands
Diliff
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Joss Bay, Broadstairs Joss Bay is a gently sloping sandy beach about 500 metres long. The beach, backed by chalk cliffs, is popular with su...
pam fray
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West Beach, Whitstable West Beach is situated at Whitstable on the North Kent coast. The gently sloping shingle beach is intersected by wood...
Paul Beaman
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St Annes St Annes is a resort beach with a small pier extending into the Irish Sea. Sand dunes run along the edge of the sandy...
Nigel Chadwick
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Walpole Bay, Margate The bathing water is a resort beach on the north Kent coast near to Margate. It is a gently shelving sandy beach with...
Mat Fascione 
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Kinmel Bay
Eric Jones
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Bull Bay Bull Bay beach is approximately 200 meters north east of Porthllechog.
Eric Jones 
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Murlough Beach
Gwen and James Anderson
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Slapton Sands Monument Slapton Sands Monument is on the south coast of Devon. It is a shingle beach, approximately one kilometre wide, backe...
Ian Paterson 
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Splash Point
Ian Murfitt 
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Largo East Beach
Tim Elliott
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Southsea West Beach
Nigel Chadwick
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Reculver Beach Reculver Beach is a beach in Kent.
Colin Kinnear
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Southerness Beach
Stanley Howe
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Crimdon Beach
El Pollock
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Thurstaston Beach
Chris Downer
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Seatown Seatown is in Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a shingle beach, approximately 900 metres wide, backed by cliffs. T...
Pam Goodey 
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Waterwynch Bay
Robin Drayton
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Tenby Castle Beach Castle Beach is a picturesque beach that has been awarded the Blue Flag award, certifying its cleanliness and safety....
ceridwen
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Pwllgwaelod Beach Pwllgwaelod Beach is about 1 kilometers north west of Dinas Cross.
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