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Chris Downer
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Periglis
Andrew Smith
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Whitby Whitby Beach is a large beach resort situated on the Yorkshire coast. The sandy beach is approximately one kilometre ...
Sarah Charlesworth
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Mother Ivey`s Bay Mother Ivey's Bay is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a rural sandy beach, approximately 480 metres wide, backed...
GaryReggae
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Dawlish Town Beach
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...
Shaun Ferguson
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Salcombe South Sands Salcombe South Sands is on the south coast of Devon on the East bank of the Kingsbridge Estuary. It is a sandy beach ...
Sandy B 
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Gundimore Beach - Christchurch This beach is open to dogs year round.
Chris Whippet 
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Folkestone Beach
John Bayes
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Selsey East Beach
Peter Gordois
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Walney West Shore Beach
Chris Court
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Stevenston Beach
Martin Bodman
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Pentewan Beach
Rod Allday
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Mexico Towan Beach
Diliff
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Joss Bay, Broadstairs Joss Bay is a gently sloping sandy beach about 500 metres long. The beach, backed by chalk cliffs, is popular with su...
Unukorno
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Belvoir Bay Belvoir Bay beach is a beach in Guernsey.
Maigheachgheal 
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Doniford Beach
Phil Williams
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Brora Beach Brora Beach is situated 700 meters north east of Brora in Highland.
gary radford
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Sheringham Sheringham is a former fishing village, but is now a seaside town which still has fishing and crab boats plying trade...
Robert Graham 
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Lyne Sands
Kate Jewell
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Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.