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Andy Waddington
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Parton Beach
Oast House Archive 
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Hastings Pelham Beach
Steve Daniels 
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Bispham Bispham bathing water is mainly sandy with some patches of rocks and pebbles. It slopes slightly to the sea at low w...
originalpickaxe
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Leigh Bell Wharf Beach
Kenneth Allen
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Portrush White Rocks Beach Portrush White Rocks Beach is approximately 3 kilometers north east of Portrush.
Kenneth Allen
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Swanpool Swanpool is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a pebble and sandy beach resort, approximately 140 metres wide, bac...
John Salmon
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Deal Castle Once one of the busiest ports in England, Deal is now a small resort on the Kent coast about 14 km north east from Do...
Tim Green from Bradford
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Gunwalloe Cove
Tanya Dedyukhina
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Great Yarmouth Power Station Beach
David Long
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Silecroft Silecroft bathing water is a remote, steeply sloping, pebbly beach levelling out to flat sand closer to the sea. At h...
Pauline Eccles
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Lydstep Beach
Ian Greig 
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Crosby Beach
Albert Bridge
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Warrenpoint
Iain Lees
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Dunbar Belhaven Beach
Peter Church
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Robin Hoods Bay Robin Hood's Bay Beach is a small rural beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is approximately 200 metres in leng...
gary radford
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Sheringham Sheringham is a former fishing village, but is now a seaside town which still has fishing and crab boats plying trade...
Maigheachgheal 
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Penbryn Beach
ally McGurk
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Bardsea Beach Bardsea Beach lies 600 meters south east of Bardsea, Cumbria.
eswales 
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Aberavon Beach
Simon Carey
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Hove Beach
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