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Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Beach

Formby Formby bathing water is a large, sandy beach with extensive sand dunes between the beach and Formby town. There are m...

Freshwater Bay On one side of this coastal area, there is a stony beach while the other side boasts a sandier patch that emerges dur...

Anstey's Cove (Torquay) Anstey's Cove is between Babbacombe and Torquay and is a small rocky beach, approximately 120 metres wide, nestling b...

Ayr Beach Ayr Beach is located in South Ayrshire 800 meters south west of Ayr.

Tankerton Tankerton is situated on the North Kent coast. The shingle beach is gently sloping, flattening to a wide expanse of s...

Tregardock Beach

Reighton Reighton Beach is a rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. The designated bathing water area is one kilom...

Tynemouth Long Sands North Tynemouth Long Sands North Beach is a gently sloping sandy resort beach. The designated bathing beach measures approx...

Plymouth Hoe West Plymouth Hoe West is near the centre of Plymouth on the south coast of Devon. It is a shingle and rock beach approxim...

Praa Sands East Praa Sands is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 1.3 kilometres wide, backed b...

Burry Port Beach Burry Port Beach is about 900 meters south east of Burry Port.

Blue Anchor West Blue Anchor is on the coast of Somerset overlooking the Bristol Channel. The beach is shingle and sand, and the water...

Cayton Bay Cayton Bay Beach is a rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length with a gentle ...

Aberystwyth North Beach Aberystwyth North Beach is located 600 meters north west of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion.

The Sands of Breckon Beach

Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve

Heacham Heacham North Beach is part of an extensive beach line which stretches north from the mudflats at Snettisham, up the ...

Clarach North Beach Clarach North Beach is located in Ceredigion 100 meters west of Clarach.

Sheerness Sheerness bathing water is on the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, near the mouths of the Thames and Medwa...

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