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Dave Fergusson
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Lower Largo Beach
Ken Ballinger
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Praa Sands East Praa Sands is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 1.3 kilometres wide, backed b...
Marathon 
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Margate Walpole Bay
David P Howard
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East Runton East Runton beach is a rural beach with cliffs and a rocky foreshore. At low tide there is an expanse of sand. The vi...
Clive Nicholson 
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Brighouse Bay
Chris Downer
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Lee-on-Solent Beach
Nigel Callaghan
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Morfa Bychan Holiday Park Beach
JThomas
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Wilsthorpe Wilsthorpe Beach is an extensive rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is 1.8 kilometres in length wi...
Pam Brophy
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Tintagel Beach
Michael Graham
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Heysham Sands Heysham Sands beach is located 600 meters west of Heysham in the county of Lancashire.
Robin Lucas
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Gelliswick Bay
Rob Farrow
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Kingsand Kingsand is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and shingle beach resort, approximately 200 metres wide, clo...
Footprints
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Beachlands West The bathing water is situated on the south coast of Hayling Island facing across the Solent. The bathing water is pri...
Sue Adair
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Meols Meols beach at Dove Point is an undulating sandy beach with sand banks visible from the shore at high tide. The beach...
Chris Downer 
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The Sands of Meal, Shetland
Robert Powell
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Cobo Beach Cobo Beach lies in Guernsey, 300 meters south west of Cobo.
Chris Andrews 
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Lamorna Cove
DS Pugh
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Saltburn Beach
OLU
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Llanina Beach
Richard Law
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WaterSwallows Quarry
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