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Jonathan Thacker 
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Hartlepool North Sands
June Hodge 
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Kilvickeon Beach Isle of Mull To get to Kilvickeon beach, drive along Craignure to Fionnphort road until you reach the turn off just before Bunessa...
Alexander P Kapp
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Skinburness Beach
JThomas
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Wilsthorpe Wilsthorpe Beach is an extensive rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is 1.8 kilometres in length wi...
kim traynor 
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Fisherrow East Beach
Richard Webb
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Kirkcaldy Seafield Beach
Partonez
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Blackpool Sands Blackpool Sands beach is approximately 2 kilometers south east of Stoke Fleming.
Chris J Dixon
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Shorthorn Beach Shorthorn beach is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 630 metres wide, backed ...
Chris Downer
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Seatown Seatown is in Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a shingle beach, approximately 900 metres wide, backed by cliffs. T...
Stephen Dawson
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Daymer Bay
Oxymoron
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Felixstowe North Felixstowe is a resort town and is also home to the country's largest container port on the Orwell Estuary. Felixstow...
Maigheachgheal 
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Traeth Gwyn New Quay Beach
Maurice D Budden
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Par Beach
Chris Gunns
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Glen Wyllin Beach
David Long
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Roan Head Beach Roan Head Beach is 2 kilometers south of Askam-in-Furness in the county of Cumbria.
Florian Pépellin
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Greve de Lecq Beach
Thomas Nugent
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Lunderston Bay
Eric Jones
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Trefor Beach
Bob Embleton
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Long Rock Mounts Bay is on the south coast of Cornwall. There are four designated bathing waters located around the bay - Wherr...
Kenneth Allen
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Gyllyngvase Beach
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