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Mark A Coleman
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Portwrinkle Beach Portwrinkle Beach is approximately 800 meters south west of Crafthole.
Pierre Terre
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Hillhead Beach Hillhead Beach is approximately 6 kilometers south of Fareham.
Jamie Stokes
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Worthing East Pier Beach
Martin Bodman
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Mewslade Bay East Beach
Graham Taylor
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Torbay Crawley Woods Beach
Robin Lucas
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Skrinkle Beach
ceridwen
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Goodwick Sands
Trish Steel
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Christchurch Avon Beach Christchurch Avon Beach is in Christchurch Bay on the Dorset coast. The bay is approximately 13 kilometres wide from ...
Lewis Clarke 
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Teignmouth Holcombe Beach
Graham Horn
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Brighstone Beach The beach can be challenging to find suitable parking; however, it is an easily accessible strolling distance away. T...
Peter Gordois
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Walney West Shore Beach
Jonathan Billinger
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West Cross Beach
Ruth Sharville 
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Aberafan Beach Aberafan Beach is about 3 kilometers south west of Port Talbot.
John Bayes
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Selsey The bathing water is situated on the south coast between Pagham Harbour and Selsey Bill in West Sussex. The bathing w...
Colin Babb
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St Helens St Helens is a small bay situated on the east coast of the Isle of Wight at the mouth of Bembridge Harbour. Measuring...
Chris Heaton
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Low Newton Low Newton Beach is a remote bathing water on the north Northumberland coast. The gently sloping sandy beach is 0.5 k...
Alison Rawson
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Littlestone Littlestone-on-Sea is a resort beach in the middle of a 20 kilometre (km) stretch of beach in Hythe Bay, Kent. Hythe ...
Robin Lucas
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Shell Bay North Beach
JThomas
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Fraisthorpe Beach
Hugh Venables
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Challaborough Beach Challaborough Beach is situated about 500 meters north west of Bigbury-on-Sea.
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