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Roger W Haworth
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St Annes North The bathing water is extremely flat in profile and sandy with up to 300 metres of sand exposed at low tide. Sand dune...
Alan Bowring
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Bracelet Bay Bracelet Bay beach is approximately 1 kilometers east of Mumbles.
pam fray
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Tankerton Tankerton is situated on the North Kent coast. The shingle beach is gently sloping, flattening to a wide expanse of s...
Paul Glazzard
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Wilsthorpe Beach
David Smith 
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Weston-super-Mare Sand Bay
E Gammie 
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Hythe Beach
Dennis Turner
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West Kirby West Kirby's sandy beach is approximately two kilometres long and faces south west over the Dee estuary. A large stre...
Martin Bodman
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Cawsand Cawsand is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and shingle beach resort, approximately 120 metres wide, clos...
Mike Dodman
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Porthoustock Porthoustack is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote pebble beach, approximately 240 metres wide, backed by...
Kevin Trahar
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Jersey Marine Central Beach
Brian Henley
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Saunton Sands
Ulrich Hartmann
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Trevone Bay
Shaun Ferguson
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Stonehaven Cowie Beach
ValP
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Porthcothan Beach Porthcothan Beach is located in Cornwall 5 kilometers north west of St. Eval.
Christine Johnstone
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Crosby Mariners Road Beach
Colin Vosper
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Ladram Bay
Chris Downer
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Shoeburyness Beach
David Hawgood
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Formby Lifeboat Road Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Carrick Beach Carrick Beach is a beach in Dumfries and Galloway.
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 ...
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