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Dave Smethurst
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Traeth Tywyn Mawr Beach
Andrew Bone from Weymouth England
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Weymouth Lodmoor Weymouth Lodmoor is on the Dorset coast. It is a shingle beach, approximately one kilometre wide, backed by a promena...
Enrapture Media enrapture
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Vazon Beach
Ken Grainger
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Burnham Jetty North Beach Burnham Jetty North Beach is located in Somerset 100 meters south west of Burnham-on-Sea.
Andrew Curtis
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Tynemouth Cullercoats Beach
Philip Halling
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Botany Bay, Broadstairs Botany Bay, between Margate and Broadstairs in Kent has over a kilometre of sandy beach above an extensive wave-cut r...
Rose and Trev Clough 
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Helwell Bay
Sarah Smith 
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Hive Hive is in Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately one kilometre wide, backed by clif...
Mick Heraty
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Patch Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Kingsbarns Beach
Bob Embleton
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St Ouen\'s Bay Le Braye Beach
Rwendland
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Harwich Beacon Hill Beach
Phillip Perry
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Leysdown Beach
Gerald England 
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Traeth canolog y Rhyl - Rhyl central beach
Trevor Rickard
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Porthcurnick Beach Porthcurnick Beach is approximately 1 kilometers north of Gerrans.
william
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Canvey Island Beach Canvey Island Beach is 1000 meters south west of Leigh Beck in the county of Essex.
Gillian Moy
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Calshot Beach Calshot Beach is 800 meters east of Calshot in the county of Hampshire.
Steve Daniels
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Summerleaze Summerleaze is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 440 metres wide, backed with...
Peter Church
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Singing Sands
Mary and Angus Hogg
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Croy Beach
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