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Nigel Callaghan
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Morfa Bychan Holiday Park Beach
Richard Law
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WaterSwallows Quarry
JThomas
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St. Combs Beach
Lewis Clarke
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Durdle Door East Durdle Door East is on the Dorset coast, and is part of the Purbeck Heritage Coast. It is a fairly remote beach of sa...
hayley green
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Tynemouth Long Sands South Tynemouth Long Sands South Beach is a gently sloping sandy resort beach. The designated bathing beach measures approx...
Chris Downer
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Bournemouth Boscombe Pier Beach Bournemouth Boscombe Pier Beach is situated about 8 kilometers east of Bournemouth.
Alex McGregor 
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Middleton-on-sea The bathing water is on the south coast in West Sussex, adjacent to the village of Middleton-on-Sea. The upper beach,...
Tanya Dedyukhina
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Great Yarmouth Power Station Beach
Derek Harper
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Coastguards Beach Coastguards Beach is located in Devon 3 kilometers south east of Holbeton.
Sarah Charlesworth
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Shell Bay North Shell Bay North is at the mouth of Poole Harbour on the Dorset coast, and is part of the Purbeck Heritage Coast. It i...
Andrew Longton
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Lowestoft Gunton Denes Beach
Albert Bridge 
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Crawfordsburn Beach Crawfordsburn Beach is situated in the county of County Down, 1 kilometers north of Crawfordsburn.
N Chadwick 
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Beadnell Beach Beadnell Beach is situated in the county of Northumberland, 900 meters south east of Beadnell.
Simon Carey
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Winchelsea Winchelsea is a remote beach on the western edge of Rye Bay in East Sussex. The beach is predominantly shingle, with ...
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...
Herry Lawford
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Beer Beer is in Seaton Bay on the south coast of Devon. It is a pebble and sand beach, approximately 1.2 kilometres wide, ...
John Morris
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Porthselau Beach Porthselau Beach is located in Pembrokeshire 4 kilometers south west of St. David's and the Cathedral Close.
Steve Egginton
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Martins Haven Beach
Andrew Abbott 
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Douglas Broadway Beach
Eric Jones
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Trefor Beach
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