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Trevor Rickard
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New Quay Harbour Beach
Albert Bridge
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Cranfield Beach Cranfield Beach is a beach in County Down.
Mark Pilbeam
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Watershoot Bay The secluded rocky beach can be found by traversing a complex network of footpaths from Old Blackgang Road Car Park, ...
Paul Hutchinson
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Elbury Cove
tormentor
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Longniddry Beach
Lisa Jarvis
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St Abbs Beach
Steve Daniels 
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Blue Anchor West Blue Anchor is on the coast of Somerset overlooking the Bristol Channel. The beach is shingle and sand, and the water...
Michael Murray
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Trevaunance Cove Trevaunance Cove is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and rock beach resort, approximately 250 metres wide...
Roger W Haworth
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Tal-y-bont Beach
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...
Tom Jolliffe
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Man Sands
Karl and Ali 
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Morecambe North Beach
Dieter Hoegerle
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Polperro Beach Polperro Beach lies in Cornwall, 2 kilometers south east of Polperro.
Whatlep
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Penally Beach
Richard Webb
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Strathy Bay
Lewis Clarke 
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Ryde Central Beach
wfmillar
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Heads of Ayr Beach
Evelyn Simak
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Sea Palling Sea Palling is a small coastal hamlet and has a wide sandy beach with a series of shallow bays formed by man-made ree...
Stephen McKay
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Helensburgh Beach
Christina Burford
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Boscastle Beach Boscastle Beach is 600 meters west of Boscastle in the county of Cornwall.
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