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Gerald England
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Cleveleys Cleveleys is a sandy bathing water with small areas of rocks and pebbles. Groynes stretch for several kilometres up a...
Anthony Eden
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Kingsdown Beach
Chris Gunns
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Saint\'s Bay
Maigheachgheal 
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Blue Anchor Beach Blue Anchor Beach is approximately 400 meters north east of Blue Anchor.
Tony Atkin
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Widemouth Sand Widemouth Sand is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a large sandy beach resort, approximately 560 metres wide, ba...
Kenneth Allen
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Gyllyngvase Beach
Jim Champion
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Eypemouth Eypemouth is in Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a shingle beach, approximately one kilometre wide, backed by clif...
Pauline Eccles
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Lydstep Beach
Mick Garratt
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Crimdon South Beach
Roger W Haworth
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St Annes North The bathing water is extremely flat in profile and sandy with up to 300 metres of sand exposed at low tide. Sand dune...
Gareth James 
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Aberafan Margam Sands Aberafan Margam Sands beach is situated in the county of Neath Port Talbot, 5 kilometers south east of Port Talbot.
Rob Young from United Kingdom
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Oxwich Bay
Shaun Ferguson
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Bournemouth Boscombe Pier Bournemouth Boscombe Pier forms part of the 15 kilometre coastline of Poole Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sandy be...
Mike Pennington
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Portobello West Beach Portobello West Beach is 700 meters north west of Portobello in the county of City of Edinburgh.
Robin Drayton
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Crackington Haven Crackington Haven is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a remote, sheltered bay of mainly shingle, sand and pebble...
mattbuck category
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Breakwater Beach (Shoalstone) Shoalstone is at Brixham on the south coast of Devon. It is a shingle beach resort, approximately 650 metres wide, ne...
Ian Paterson
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Eastbourne Beach
Paul Thomson
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Seamill Beach
Paul Gillett 
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Littlehampton Coastguard Station Beach
Anthony Parkes 
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Salcombe North Sands
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