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Bob Embleton
Photo: Bob Embleton CC BY-SA 2.0
Long Rock Mounts Bay is on the south coast of Cornwall. There are four designated bathing waters located around the bay - Wherr...
Ron Speed
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Scarborough Harbour Beach
Paul McIlroy
Photo: Paul McIlroy CC BY-SA 2.0
Kirkcaldy Linktown Beach
Andy Campbell 
Photo: Andy Campbell  CC BY-SA 2.0
Brodick Bay Brodick Bay beach is located 1 kilometers north west of Brodick in the county of North Ayrshire.
David P Howard
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East Runton East Runton beach is a rural beach with cliffs and a rocky foreshore. At low tide there is an expanse of sand. The vi...
Jim Bain
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St. Andrews West Sands
Whatlep
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Penally 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...
roger geach 
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Slapton Sands Monument Beach
Nigel Cox
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Frinton Beach
DS Pugh
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Saltburn Beach
Des Colhoun
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Lossiemouth East Beach
Shaun Butler
Photo: Shaun Butler CC BY-SA 2.0
Sandy Haven Beach
Ann Cook 
Photo: Ann Cook  CC BY-SA 2.0
Dhoon Beach
Christopher Hilton 
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Porlock Weir Porlock Bay is between Hurlestone Point and Porlock Weir in Somerset overlooking the Bristol Channel. Porlock Weir is...
Oast House Archive 
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Hastings Pelham Beach
Walter Baxter 
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Thorntonloch Beach
Steve Daniels
Photo: Steve Daniels CC BY-SA 2.0
Berrow North of Unity Farm Berrow North of Unity Farm is on the Somerset coast overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is a fairly remote sandy beac...
Tanya Dedyukhina
Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina CC BY 3.0
Great Yarmouth Power Station Beach
John Webber
Photo: John Webber CC BY-SA 2.0
Ryde West Beach
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