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Sjaak Kempe from Groningen The Netherlands
Photo: Sjaak Kempe from Groningen The Netherlands CC BY 2.0
Knab Rock Beach
Crispin Purdye
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Row Cove Row Cove beach is about 2 kilometers south east of Newton and Noss.
Stephen McKay 
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Stonehaven Central Beach
Oliver Dixon 
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Kilve Beach
Nigel Brown
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Twyni Bach Beach
Alan Bowring
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St. Marys Well Bay
hayley green 
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Thornwick Bay
Alan Swain
Photo: Alan Swain CC BY-SA 2.0
Swanage Central Swanage Central is within Swanage Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 960 metres wide ...
Rob Purvis 
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Sandy Bay
Reading Tom from Reading UK
Photo: Reading Tom from Reading UK CC BY 2.0
Martyrs Bay Beach Located just south of the pier, lies a sandy cove that holds a gruesome history. In the year 806, this bay became the...
Penny Mayes
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Leysdown Leysdown is a traditional resort beach on the Isle of Sheppey. The gently sloping beach is mostly sandy, with some sh...
Martyn Gorman
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Newburgh Beach
Richard Webb
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Burntisland Beach Burntisland Beach is 800 meters north east of Burntisland in the county of Fife.
Roy Parkhouse
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Widemouth Sand
Roger Smith
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Seaburn - Sunderland Seaburn Beach is a gently sloping sandy resort beach measuring approximately 1.5 kilometres in length to the north of...
Eric Jones
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Lleiniog Penmon Beach
Maigheachgheal 
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Traeth Gwyn New Quay Beach
Mike Faherty 
Photo: Mike Faherty  CC BY-SA 2.0
Calshot Calshot beach is part of a shingle spit on the Hampshire coast which extends westward into the southern end of Southa...
Nick Andrews
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Brandy Cove Brandy Cove beach is in Swansea, 1 kilometers south east of Bishopston.
Robin Lucas
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Gelliswick Bay
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