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Mike Faherty 
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Calshot Calshot beach is part of a shingle spit on the Hampshire coast which extends westward into the southern end of Southa...
Steve Daniels
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Marsden Beach
Andrew Hill
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Haverigg Beach
Row
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Polnare Cove
william
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Southend Thorpe Bay
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 ...
Alex McGregor 
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Workington Beach
Gordon Hatton
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Aberffraw Beach Aberffraw Beach is located in Isle of Anglesey 1 kilometers south east of Aberffraw.
Dara Jasumani
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Westdale Beach
Tony Atkin
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Kennack Sands
Andy F
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Longhoughton Steel Beach
Evelyn Simak
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Horsey Beach
Rwendland
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Dovercourt Dovercourt is a quiet family resort with a shelving sand and shingle beach. It is backed by a promenade and sea wall....
Jim Bain
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Elie Harbour Beach
Gwen and James Anderson
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Westhaven Beach
Roger Smith
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Seaburn - Sunderland Seaburn Beach is a gently sloping sandy resort beach measuring approximately 1.5 kilometres in length to the north of...
Simon Huguet
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Portreath Portreath is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and shingle beach resort, approximately 520 metres wide, ba...
Peter Thornton
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Market Bay Discovering this beach takes a bit of effort to navigate through some rough terrain. However, a few years back, it wa...
Eileen Littler 
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Pick Mere
Mike Pennington
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Seahouses North Beach
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.