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Les Hull 
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Walney West Shore Walney West Shore bathing water is a gently sloping shingle beach with a large expanse of sand exposed at low water. ...
mattbuck category
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Southend Chalkwell Beach
pep
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Portelet Beach Portelet Beach is located 3 kilometers south east of St. Brelade in the county of Jersey.
Basher Eyre 
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Littlehampton Sea Road Beach
Michael Walsh
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Melvich 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...
Basher Eyre
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Dunster South East Beach
David Hawgood
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Formby Lifeboat Road Beach
David Medcalf
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Drummore Beach
Russel Wills 
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St. Cyrus Beach
Dara Jasumani
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Westdale Beach
Martin Bodman
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Mothecombe Beach
Eric Jones
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Menai Bridge St Georges Pier Beach
Derek Harper
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Porthpean Beach Porthpean Beach is situated 1 kilometers south of Charlestown in Cornwall.
M J Richardson
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Broad Sands Broad Sands is situated about 2 kilometers west of North Berwick.
Bob Crook
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Caister Point Caister-on-Sea is a small family beach resort and the sandy beach is backed by dunes. Caister Point beach is situated...
Elliott Simpson 
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Hunstanton Main Beach Hunstanton is a popular Norfolk coastal holiday resort with a largely sandy beach and is one of the few beaches in No...
Glyn Baker
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Jaywick Jaywick is a small coastal village with large caravan parks to the west. The quiet and sandy beach has recently been ...
Stephen McKay
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Goodrington Beach
SMJ 
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Portmellon Portmellon is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 150 metres wide, backed by hi...
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