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Alan Heardman
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Cleethorpes Cleethorpes is a popular resort with a gently sloping sandy beach. The beach is backed by a promenade and gardens, an...
Anthony Parkes 
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Salcombe North Sands
Shaun Butler
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Sandy Haven Beach
Paul Gillett 
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Saltdean Beach
Caroline Tandy
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Duporth Beach
Gerald England
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Fidden Beach This magnificent beach boasts vast stretches of glistening white sand, punctuated by magnificent pink granite outcrop...
Roger Cornfoot 
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St Audries Bay Waterfall
Tony Atkin 
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Welcombe Mouth Beach
Mark Gadsby
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Chapel St Leonards Chapel St Leonards is a popular village resort beach just along the coast from Ingoldmells and Skegness. The sandy be...
Ray Beer
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Church Ope Cove Church Ope Cove is on the Isle of Portland on the Dorset coast. It is a sheltered pebble beach, approximately 700 met...
Lisa Jarvis
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St Abbs Beach
Chris J Dixon
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Towan Beach
Robert Edwards
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Clacton Beach Martello Tower Clacton is a busy seaside resort. Clacton Martello tower beach is wide, sandy and gently shelving, and backed by the ...
Jonathan Thacker 
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Walney Biggar Bank Beach
Maurice D Budden 
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Downderry Downderry is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sand, shingle and pebble beach, approximately 1.1 kilomet...
Andrea Hope
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Low Newton Beach
Jim Strang 
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West Voe Sands
Malcolm Etherington
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Lyme Regis Monmouth Beach Dogs allowed all year round
Jim Bain
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St. Andrews West Sands
Chris Gunns
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Saint\'s Bay
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