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Dave Smethurst
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Traeth Tywyn Mawr Beach
Nigel Brown
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Twyni Bach Beach
Nigel Chadwick
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Herne Bay Central The bathing water is a resort beach on the north Kent coast close to Herne Bay town centre. The shingle beach is gent...
Eric Jones
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Lleiniog Penmon Beach
Simon Carey
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Beachlands West Beach Beachlands West Beach is 6 kilometers south of Havant in the county of Hampshire.
Shaun Ferguson
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Croyde Bay Croyde Bay is on the north coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 670 metres wide, backed with dun...
Euan Nelson 
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Traigh-an-t-Suidhe, north west beach Named after the prominent rock formation at its center, the Beach of the Seat boasts a lengthy expanse of pristine wh...
Andrew Abbott 
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Great Par
Tony Atkin
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Looe Plaidy Beach
Graham Ellis
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Troon South Beach
Eric Jones
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Newcastle Beach
Mike Pennington
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Aberdeen Footdee Beach Aberdeen Footdee Beach is located in Aberdeen City 1 kilometers east of Castlehill and Pittodrie.
JOHN SIMPSON
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Weston-super-Mare Royal Sands
Duncan MacDonald
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Golspie South Beach
Andrew Hill
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Haverigg Haverigg is a gently sloping gravel and sandy beach for which levels out to flat sand. At low tide the water retreats...
David Gearing 
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Staithes Beach
Peter Church
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Withernsea Beach
Philip Pankhurst 
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Abbotsbury Beach Dogs are welcome throughout the entire year.
Nigel Chadwick
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Broadstairs, Stone Bay Stone Bay in Broadstairs is a 600 metre sandy bay above a wave-cut rock platform, backed by a promenade and white cha...
Trevor Rickard
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Shipload Bay
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