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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...
Bob Jones
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Rosehearty Beach Rosehearty Beach is located 200 meters north east of Rosehearty in the county of Aberdeenshire.
Mick Heraty
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Patch Beach
colin grice
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Sandsend Beach
Andrea Hope
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Low Newton Beach
David Lally
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The Bar
David Hawgood
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Hightown Beach Hightown Beach is in Sefton 600 meters south west of Hightown.
Sarah Eve Armstrong 
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Earlsferry Shell Bay
Alex Liivet from Chester United Kingdom
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Gaddings Dam
David Brown
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Gruinard Beach
mattbuck category
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Southend Chalkwell Beach
Oxyman
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Hampstead Heath (Mixed Pond) The Mixed Pond is one of a series of ponds in the south-west corner of Hampstead Heath formed by the damming of the H...
Richard Webb
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North Berwick Milsey Bay
Bob Embleton
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Bouley Bay Bouley Bay beach is 1 kilometers north east of Trinity in the county of Jersey.
Tony Atkin
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Porthleven Sands Porthleven Sands bathing water is at the western end of Porthleven Sands on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a shin...
Tony Atkin
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Bovisand Bovisand is on the south coast of Devon. It is a remote sandy bay, approximately 100 metres wide, surrounded by cliff...
Colin Smith
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Kinghorn Harbour Beach
Alex Liivet from Chester United Kingdom
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Seaton Carew Central Beach
Chris Downer
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Bournemouth Manor Steps Beach Bournemouth Manor Steps Beach is located 79 kilometers east of Wick in the county of Dorset.
Nigel Chadwick
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St Mildred's Bay, Westgate The bathing water is a resort beach on the north Kent coast near to Margate. It is a gently shelving sandy beach with...
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