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Basher Eyre
Photo: Basher Eyre CC BY-SA 2.0
Middleton-on-Sea Beach
Tim Green from Bradford
Photo: Tim Green from Bradford CC BY 2.0
Swanpool Beach
Peter Thornton
Photo: Peter Thornton CC BY-SA 2.0
Market Bay Discovering this beach takes a bit of effort to navigate through some rough terrain. However, a few years back, it wa...
Robert Edwards
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Clacton Beach Martello Tower Clacton is a busy seaside resort. Clacton Martello tower beach is wide, sandy and gently shelving, and backed by the ...
David Dixon 
Photo: David Dixon  CC BY-SA 2.0
Swanage South Beach
Tony Atkin
Photo: Tony Atkin CC BY-SA 2.0
Porthleven Sands Porthleven Sands bathing water is at the western end of Porthleven Sands on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a shin...
Eric Jones 
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Nicholson\'s Strand Beach
Russel Wills 
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St. Cyrus Beach
Albert Bridge 
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Helen\'s Bay
Michael Beckwith
Photo: Michael Beckwith CC BY 2.0
Cleveleys Beach Cleveleys Beach is located 3 kilometers west of Cleveleys in the county of Lancashire.
william
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Southend Thorpe Bay Thorpe Bay is a sandy/shingle beach that stretches from Eastern Esplanade by Southchurch Park through to Thorpe Bay Y...
mattbuck category
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Southend Chalkwell Beach
Jonathan Thacker 
Photo: Jonathan Thacker  CC BY-SA 2.0
Hartlepool North Sands
Mike Searle 
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Worbarrow Beach
Tony Atkin 
Photo: Tony Atkin  CC BY-SA 2.0
Welcombe Mouth Beach
P stephenson
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Silloth Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
Photo: Sarah Charlesworth CC BY-SA 2.0
Dunnet Bay
Chris Downer
Photo: Chris Downer CC BY-SA 2.0
Seatown Seatown is in Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a shingle beach, approximately 900 metres wide, backed by cliffs. T...
Barry Pearce
Photo: Barry Pearce CC BY-SA 2.0
Polstreath Beach Polstreath Beach is 800 meters north east of Mevagissey in the county of Cornwall.
Caroline Tandy
Photo: Caroline Tandy CC BY-SA 2.0
Duporth Beach
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