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Anne Burgess 
Photo: Anne Burgess  CC BY-SA 2.0
St Davids Beach
Colin Smith
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Kinghorn Harbour Beach
John McLeish
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Millport Bay
Simon Carey
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Normans Bay
Helen Wilkinson
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Tunstall Tunstall is currently closed, there is no safe access to bathers due to coastal erosion. Tunstall Beach is a long rur...
Phil Williams
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Dunnet Beach
Mick Garratt
Photo: Mick Garratt CC BY-SA 2.0
Redcar Lifeboat Station Redcar Lifeboat Station is one of four designated bathing beaches fronting the resort of Redcar. It is a gently-slopi...
Andrew Wood
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Golspie North Beach
L Willetts
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Leonards Cove
Martin Speck
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Solent Breezes Beach
Steve Daniels
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Bognor Regis (Aldwick) The bathing water is a resort beach on the south coast in West Sussex, adjacent to the town of Bognor Regis. The beac...
Philip Halling
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Sandymouth Sandymouth is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach, approximately one kilometre wide, backed by pebble...
Andrew Hill
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Haverigg Haverigg is a gently sloping gravel and sandy beach for which levels out to flat sand. At low tide the water retreats...
Kenneth  Allen 
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Portrush West Strand Beach Portrush West Strand Beach is situated 300 meters south of Portrush in County Antrim.
Sarah Charlesworth
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Porth Trecastle Beach Porth Trecastle Beach is situated 3 kilometers west of Aberffraw in Isle of Anglesey.
Chris Shaw
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Deganwy North Beach
Tim Green from Bradford
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Swanpool Beach
Robert Cuthill
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Swansea Slipway Beach
Robin Drayton 
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Traeth Llyfn Beach
Bob Jones
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Church Cove Church Cove beach is situated in the county of Cornwall, 2 kilometers north of Lizard.
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.