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Diane Sambrook
Photo: Diane Sambrook CC BY-SA 2.0
Mouthwell Sands
wfmillar
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Troon North Beach
Robin Lucas
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Watwick Beach
Lewis Clarke
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Man of War Beach Dogs welcome all year round
Graham Taylor
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Torbay Crawley Woods Beach
Mike Pennington
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Seahouses North Beach
David Dixon 
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Southport Southport is a sandy beach located at the northern end of the Sefton coastline. It has a very shallow gradient with ...
Wesley Trevor Johnston 
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Kessingland Beach
Nicholas Mutton
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Aberaeron North Beach Aberaeron North Beach lies in Ceredigion, 600 meters north of Aberaeron.
SMJ 
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Portmellon Portmellon is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 150 metres wide, backed by hi...
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...
Evelyn Simak
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West Runton West Runton is predominately a sand and shingle beach, but also has some rocky areas and is backed by a sandy cliff. ...
Philip Halling 
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Pendower Beach
Gordon Brown
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Fairlie Beach
M J Richardson
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Broad Sands Broad Sands is situated about 2 kilometers west of North Berwick.
David and Rachel Landin
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Heacham Heacham North Beach is part of an extensive beach line which stretches north from the mudflats at Snettisham, up the ...
Michael Beckwith
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Cleveleys Beach Cleveleys Beach is located 3 kilometers west of Cleveleys in the county of Lancashire.
wfmillar
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Blyth South Beach Blyth South Beach is situated about 3 kilometers east of Blyth.
Raymond Knapman 
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Morecambe South Beach
Trevor Rickard
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New Quay Harbour Beach
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.