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Clive Perrin
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Highcliffe Beach Highcliffe Beach is located 1000 meters south west of Highcliffe-on-Sea in the county of Dorset. Dogs welcome between...
Lis Burke
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Lunan Bay
Paul Glazzard
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Wilsthorpe Beach
Robin Drayton 
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Traeth Llyfn Beach
Tony Atkin 
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Welcombe Mouth Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Wembury Beach
Derek Harper
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Paignton Paignton Sands Paignton Sands is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 800 metres wide, backed by a...
Grant Sherman
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Westward Ho! Westward Ho! is south of the Taw/Torridge Estuary on the north coast of Devon. It is a large sandy beach resort, appr...
Mark A Coleman
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Portwrinkle Portwrinkle is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sand and rock beach, approximately one kilometre wide, ...
Bill Webb
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Dunster North West Beach
Dr Richard Murray
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Tentsmuir Sands
Gillian Moy
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Calshot Beach Calshot Beach is 800 meters east of Calshot in the county of Hampshire.
Steve Daniels 
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Whitecliff Bay At the eastern tip of the Isle of Wight, Whitecliffe Bay is famous for the well-exposed sedimentary rock sequence whi...
Basher Eyre
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Middleton-on-Sea Beach
Charles Leventon
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Pembrey Beach
Pam Brophy
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Tintagel Beach
Rose and Trev Clough 
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Watchet Beach
Robin Webster 
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Bexhill Beach Bexhill Beach lies 700 meters south east of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.
Fossick OU
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Peter\'s Point
martin dawes
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Cayton Bay Cayton Bay Beach is a rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length with a gentle ...
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