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Garry Bye
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Nanjizal Beach
David Pickersgill
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Skegness Skegness is a popular and busy resort. The wide sandy beach is backed by a promenade and gardens.
Rose and Trev Clough 
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Helwell Bay
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Westgate St Mildreds Bay
UserJamesmcmahon
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St. Andrews East Sands
JOHN SIMPSON
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Weston-super-Mare Royal Sands
Christine Matthews 
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Plymouth Hoe East Beach
Eirian Evans
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Penrhyn Bay
David Medcalf
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Drummore Beach
Christine Johnstone
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Crosby Mariners Road Beach
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Southend Chalkwell Beach
Jim Champion
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Portheras Cove Portheras Cove beach is 5 kilometers north of St Just in the county of Cornwall.
Alan Swain
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Swanage Central Swanage Central is within Swanage Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 960 metres wide ...
Sarah Charlesworth
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Spittal Beach
Oliver Dixon 
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Beadnell Beadnell Beach is a remote bathing water on the north Northumberland coast. Measuring three kilometres in length with...
David Dixon 
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Chorlton Water Park
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Teignmouth Town Teignmouth beach is close to the mouth of the Teign Estuary on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, ...
Crispin Purdye
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Polridmouth Beach Polridmouth Beach is located in Cornwall 1 kilometers south of Fowey.
Penny Mayes
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Neyland Slip Beach
Simon Hookey
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Hastings Bulverhythe Beach
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