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Phillip Perry
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Eastbourne North Beach
Steve  F
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Sunderland Roker Beach
Peter Watkins
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Cotswold Country Park and Beach The bathing water is in Keynes Lake 32 in the Cotswolds Water Park near Somerford Keynes. The beach is 140 metres lon...
Simon Carey
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Cuckmere Haven Beach Cuckmere Haven is a picturesque beach located in Seaford BN25 4AR, offering a picturesque destination for tourists an...
Trevor Rickard
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Roker - Sunderland Roker Beach is a gently sloping sandy resort beach approximately 1.5 kilometres in length which lies immediately nort...
Gavin Tyte
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Lepe Lepe beach, part of Lepe Country Park, is on the Hampshire coast with views over the Solent to the Isle of Wight. The...
Simon Leatherdale
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Traigh Mor The East side of Iona is home to the sprawling Big Beach – a picturesque white sand beach that offers spectacular vie...
Leslie Barrie
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Kames Bay
Karl and Ali 
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Morecambe North Beach
Jim Champion
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Praa Sands West Praa Sands is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 1.3 kilometres wide, backed b...
Michael Jagger
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Margate The Bay The bathing water is a resort beach on the north Kent coast adjacent to Margate town centre. It is a gently shelving ...
Jim Champion
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Gwithian Towans Gwithian Towans is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and rock beach resort, approximately 670 metres wide,...
JThomas
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Cayton Bay Cayton Bay beach is situated in the county of North Yorkshire, 5 kilometers south east of Scarborough.
Richard Webb 
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Spittal Quay Beach
william
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Southend Thorpe Bay Thorpe Bay is a sandy/shingle beach that stretches from Eastern Esplanade by Southchurch Park through to Thorpe Bay Y...
Ian Capper
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Overstrand Beach
P stephenson
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Silloth Beach
Eric Jones 
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Tyrella Beach
Paul Glazzard
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Skipsea Beach
Phil Catterall
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Skinningrove Beach
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