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Pierre Terre
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Mupe Bay Dogs are welcome to visit our establishment throughout the year.
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...
David Brown
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Gruinard Beach
Roger W Haworth
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Tal-y-bont Beach
Malcolm Etherington
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West Bay East Beach Dogs welcome between October and April
Steve Daniels 
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Great Yarmouth South Denes Beach
Roger Cornfoot 
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Hope Cove
Nick Smith
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Hythe Hythe is a resort beach in the North of Hythe Bay, Kent. Hythe Bay stretches from Folkestone down to the headland of ...
Sarah Charlesworth
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Great Mattiscombe Beach
Row
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Kennack Sands Kennack Sands is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a rural sandy cove, approximately 250 metres wide, backed by s...
Pauline Eccles
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Barricane Beach
Robert Lamb
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Westbrook Bay, Margate The bathing water is a resort beach on the north Kent coast close to Margate town centre. It is a gently shelving san...
Andy Brass
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Whitby Beach
David M Moore
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West Wittering The bathing water is situated on the south coast at the eastern side of Chichester Harbour entrance in West Sussex. T...
Pam Goodey 
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Waterwynch Bay
Ross
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Ballyholme Beach Ballyholme Beach is about 2 kilometers north east of Bangor.
Jonathan Thacker 
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Hartlepool North Sands
Thomas Nugent
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Lunderston Bay
Derek Harper
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Paignton Preston Sands Paignton Preston Sands is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach, approximately 800 metres wide, backed by ...
Philip Halling 
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Overcombe Beach
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