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Tim Green from Bradford
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Jangye Ryne Beach
Sjaak Kempe from Groningen The Netherlands
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Broadhaven Beach The beach has been bestowed with the Blue Flag Award, making it an ideal destination for families and their furry fri...
Ray Beer
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Church Ope Cove Church Ope Cove is on the Isle of Portland on the Dorset coast. It is a sheltered pebble beach, approximately 700 met...
Sjaak Kempe from Groningen The Netherlands
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Little Haven Beach This beach is an ideal destination for families and those traveling with furry friends, as it is dog-friendly. Situat...
Eileen Littler 
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Pick Mere
Robin Lucas
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Pentewan Pentewan is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a privately owned sandy beach resort, approximately 1.1 kilometres ...
Robin Webster
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Worthing The bathing water is a resort beach on the south coast in West Sussex, backed by an urban area with the town centre c...
Derek Harper
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Torre Abbey Beach
Eryka Hurst
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Hayle Towans The Hayle Towans is north of the mouth of the Hayle Estuary on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resor...
Steve  F
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Sunderland Roker Beach
Bob Jenkins
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Pilling Sands
Steve Daniels 
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Whitecliff Bay At the eastern tip of the Isle of Wight, Whitecliffe Bay is famous for the well-exposed sedimentary rock sequence whi...
Iain Lees
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Fishermans Haven Beach
Pauline Eccles
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Porthgwidden Porthgwidden is in St Ives Bay on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a small, sheltered, sandy beach resort approxima...
Jaggery 
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Weymouth Beach dog exercising area This establishment is operational throughout the year.
martin dawes
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Cayton Bay Cayton Bay Beach is a rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length with a gentle ...
Richard Law
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Newport North Beach Newport Sands boasts itself as the biggest beach found in Newport Bay, boasting over a mile of flat sand, along with ...
Jon Bunting from UK
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Great Yarmouth Pier Great Yarmouth is a large, busy and popular resort on the east coast of Norfolk. Yarmouth Pier beach is a wide sandy ...
Les Hull
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South Shields South Shields Beach is a resort beach south of the mouth of the River Tyne. It is a gently sloping sandy beach, 1.5 k...
Gwen and James Anderson
Photo: Gwen and James Anderson CC BY-SA 2.0
Monifieth Beach
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