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Shaun Butler
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Sandy Haven Beach
Martin Bodman
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Soar Mill Cove
Tim Green from Bradford
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Swanpool Beach
Chris Downer
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Readymoney Cove Readymoney Cove is at the mouth of the Fowey Estuary on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy cove, appro...
Thomas Nugent
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Largs Central Beach
jeff collins
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Salcombe South Sands
Sue Adair
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Meols Beach
Sue Adair
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Meols Meols beach at Dove Point is an undulating sandy beach with sand banks visible from the shore at high tide. The beach...
Tony Atkin
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Bantham Beach Bantham Beach is approximately 1 kilometers east of Bigbury-on-Sea.
Anthony Eden
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Kingsdown Beach
Lewis Clarke
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Putsborough Putsborough is south of Woolacombe on the north coast of Devon. It is a large sandy beach resort, approximately 780 m...
David and Rachel Landin
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Heacham Heacham North Beach is part of an extensive beach line which stretches north from the mudflats at Snettisham, up the ...
Maigheachgheal 
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Penbryn Beach
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...
Dave Croker 
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Rhossili North Beach Rhossili North Beach is situated about 2 kilometers south west of Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton.
Martin Bodman
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Mewslade Bay East Beach
Stanley Howe
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Crimdon Beach
Eric Jones
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Traeth Llydan Beach
Sandy B 
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Swanage North Beach
Iain Macaulay
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Fraserburgh Philorth Beach
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