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gary radford
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Sutton-on-Sea Sutton-on-Sea is a small resort with a wide sandy beach. The beach is close to gardens and backed by the town.
Dr Astrid Stilma
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Camber Camber Sands is situated at the mouth of the river Rother in Rye Bay, East Sussex. The bathing water is a wide expans...
Eirian Evans
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Penrhyn Bay
Tony Atkin
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Chapel Porth Chapel Porth is on the north coast of Cornwall, approximately three kilometres from St Agnes. At high tide the beach ...
Bill Boaden 
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Aber Forrest
James Denham 
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Eyemouth Beach
Oast House Archive 
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Hastings Pelham Beach Hastings Pelham Beach is a resort beach within the district of Hastings in East Sussex. The beach is predominantly sh...
Anne Burgess 
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St Davids Beach
DS Pugh
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Saltburn Beach
Andy Peacock
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Hunstanton South Beach
JThomas
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Nairn Central Beach
Donald Brydon
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Newbiggin-by-the-Sea South Beach
Pauline Eccles
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Porthgwidden Porthgwidden is in St Ives Bay on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a small, sheltered, sandy beach resort approxima...
Martin Speck
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Solent Breezes Beach
John Fielding
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Llansantffraid Beach
Tony Atkin 
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Lynmouth Lynmouth is a small resort bay on the edge of Exmoor National Park on the north coast of Devon. The bay is sheltered ...
Andrew Abbott 
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Green Bay
Robin Drayton 
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Traeth Llyfn Beach
Peter Moore 
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Dornoch Burn Mouth Beach
Sally 
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Alum Bay Take a leisurely chairlift ride down to the multi-colored sands of the beach. Enjoy a relaxing boat ride out to the n...
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