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David Maclennan
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Shandwick Bay
Chris Downer 
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Saundersfoot Glen Beach
Albert Bridge
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Cranfield Beach Cranfield Beach is a beach in County Down.
Pierre Terre
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Blackrock Beach Blackrock Beach is in Cornwall 5 kilometers south of Bude.
wfmillar
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Irvine Beach
Malcolm Street
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Fraisthorpe Fraisthorpe Beach is a rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length with a gentle...
David Lally 
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Millendreath Millendreath beach is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 650 metres wide, back...
Sarah Charlesworth
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Spittal Spittal Beach is a gently sloping resort beach approximately one kilometre long situated immediately south of the mou...
Mick Garratt
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Crimdon Crimdon Beach is a gently sloping sandy remote beach. The designated area is approximately one kilometre long and it ...
Diane Sambrook
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Mouthwell Sands
Derek Harper
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St Mary's Bay (Devon) St Mary's Bay is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 450 metres wide, backed by cl...
jolmartyn
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Silverknowes Beach
Helen Wilkinson
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Tunstall Tunstall is currently closed, there is no safe access to bathers due to coastal erosion. Tunstall Beach is a long rur...
Simon Carey
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Brighton Kemptown Beach
Alan Hughes
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Fall Bay
Chris J Dixon
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Towan Beach
scillystuff
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Beachlands Central Beach Beachlands Central Beach lies in Hampshire, 1000 meters south west of Mengham.
originalpickaxe
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Leigh Bell Wharf Beach
Andrew Longton
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Lowestoft Gunton Denes Beach
David Dixon 
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Chorlton Water Park
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.