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Simon Carey
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Normans 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...
Oast House Archive 
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Hastings Pelham Beach
Gwen and James Anderson
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Westhaven Beach
OLU
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Aberaeron South Beach Aberaeron South Beach lies in Ceredigion, 400 meters south west of Aberaeron.
Colin Park
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Hemmick Beach Hemmick Beach is located 2 kilometers south of St. Goran in the county of Cornwall.
Simon Huguet
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Portreath Portreath is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and shingle beach resort, approximately 520 metres wide, ba...
Robin Lucas
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Gelliswick Bay
Pierre Terre
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Bournemouth Hengistbury West Bournemouth Hengitsbury West forms part of the 15 kilometre coastline of Poole Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a shing...
Michael Murray
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Trevaunance Cove
Rob Farrow
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Tregonhawke Beach
Sebastian Ballard
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South Beach - Studland Bay From the months of May to September, it is required that dogs are kept on a leash while visiting the beach.
Oliver Dixon
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Tresaith Beach
Stanley Howe
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Crimdon Beach
Basher Eyre 
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Hillhead The bathing water is a gently shelving beach which faces south-west, across the end of Southampton Water and the Sole...
Alan Harris
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Kidwelly Beach
Ian Greig 
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Penmaenmawr Beach
michael ely 
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Lepe Beach
hayley green
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Borth Beach Borth Beach lies in Ceredigion, 200 meters north west of Borth.
Andrew Longton
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Lowestoft Gunton Denes Beach
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