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Ian Greig 
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Crosby Beach
william
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Southend Thorpe Bay Thorpe Bay is a sandy/shingle beach that stretches from Eastern Esplanade by Southchurch Park through to Thorpe Bay Y...
Trish Steel
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Flamborough North Landing Beach
Peter Fuller
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Dunoon West Bay
Pauline Eccles
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Newport Slipway Beach
Sandy B 
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Swanage North Beach
JHannanBriggs 
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Huttoft Beach
Ron Strutt
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St Mary\'s Bay
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...
Ian Cardinal 
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Old Colwyn Beach
Peter Moore 
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Dornoch Burn Mouth Beach
Steve Daniels 
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Barry Watch House Bay Barry Watch House Bay beach is in Vale of Glamorgan 2 kilometers south of Barry.
Tim Green from Bradford
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Church Cove Church Cove beach is about 4 kilometers north west of Mullion.
Bob Jenkins
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Pilling Sands
Pierre Terre
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Hillhead Beach Hillhead Beach is approximately 6 kilometers south of Fareham.
Chris Downer 
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Poole Branksome Chine Poole Branksome Chine forms part of the 15 kilometre coastline of Poole Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sandy beach ...
Tony Atkin
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Pendower Pendower is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 850 metres wide, backed by low ...
Philip Halling 
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Wembury Wembury is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sand and rock beach resort, approximately 1.1 kilometres wide, backed...
Roger Cornfoot 
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St Audries Bay Waterfall
Joe Pritchard
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Carbis Bay Carbis Bay beach is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a privately owned sandy beach resort, approximately one kil...
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