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Martyn Gorman
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Cruden Bay
Robin Lucas
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St. Brides Haven Beach
Mat Fascione 
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Kinmel Bay
Philip Pankhurst 
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Abbotsbury Beach Dogs are welcome throughout the entire year.
David Wright
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Hornsea Beach
Yvonne Wakefield 
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Ballycastle Beach Ballycastle Beach is in County Antrim 1 kilometers north east of Ballycastle.
Ian Cunliffe
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Portloe Beach Portloe Beach is situated 1 kilometers south east of Veryan in Cornwall.
Eric Jones
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Cemaes Beach Cemaes Beach lies in Isle of Anglesey, 500 meters north east of Cemaes.
Philip Halling 
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Overcombe Beach
Eirian Evans
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Llandudno West Shore
Chris J Dixon
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St Anthony Head Beach
Alec MacKinnon
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Doonfoot Beach
Derek Harper 
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Wringcliff Beach
wfmillar
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Kilchattan Bay
Rob Farrow
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Minehead Terminus Minehead Terminus is on the Somerset coast overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is a sand and shingle beach resort, ap...
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 ...
Les Hull
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South Shields South Shields Beach is a resort beach south of the mouth of the River Tyne. It is a gently sloping sandy beach, 1.5 k...
Graham Taylor
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Torbay Crawley Woods Beach
Martin Thomas
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Slapton Sands Torcross Slapton Sands Torcross is on the south coast of Devon. It is a remote shingle beach, approximately one kilometre wide...
Richard Webb
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Strathy Bay
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