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Philip Halling
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Combe Martin Beach Combe Martin Beach is in Devon, 2 kilometers west of Combe Martin.
Clive Nicholson 
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Brighouse Bay
Lewis Clarke 
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Teignmouth Holcombe Beach
Mike Faherty
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Milford-on-sea Beach
Pam Brophy
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Caswell Bay Caswell Bay beach lies 1 kilometers south west of Newton, Swansea.
Jeremy Owen
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Caerfai Beach The beach in question has been bestowed with the prestigious Green Coast Award, attesting to its high environmental s...
Thomas Nugent
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Largs Central Beach
Andrew Curtis
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Horden Beach
Mick Garratt
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Seaton Carew North Beach
Rob Purvis 
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Sandy Bay
Andrew Abbott 
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Green Bay
bunberyist
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Maenporth Maenporth is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote, sheltered sandy beach, approximately 200 metres wide, su...
Dylan Moore 
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The Parrog Newport Bay in Pembrokeshire boasts a charming small beach known as The Parrog. The beach features a compact car park...
Adrian Cable
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Dunwich Beach
Alison Rawson
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Seahouses North Seahouses North Beach is a long remote beach situated on the north Northumberland coast. Measuring nearly two kilomet...
Jonathan Thacker 
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Walney Sandy Gap The beach at Walney Sandy Gap is dominated by shingle for about thirty metres towards the sea and is shallow in profi...
Dave Fergusson 
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Mellon Udrigle Beach
Derek Harper
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Shaldon 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...
Bob Jones
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West Mersea Beach
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