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Peter Watkins
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Cotswold Country Park and Beach The bathing water is in Keynes Lake 32 in the Cotswolds Water Park near Somerford Keynes. The beach is 140 metres lon...
Pam Brophy
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Combe Martin Combe Martin is a small resort, in a sheltered valley, at the western edge of Exmoor National Park on the north Devon...
Eric Jones
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Trearddur Bay
Darren Rosson
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Trevone Bay Trevone Bay is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a fairly remote sandy beach, approximately 170 metres wide, in a...
John Haynes 
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Dwyrain y Rhyl - Rhyl east
Ben Charlton
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Herne Bay The bathing water is a resort beach on the north Kent coast close to Herne Bay town centre. The bathing water is pred...
Sue Adair
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Leasowe Bay
Martin Bodman
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Mothecombe Mothecombe is at the mouth of the Erme Estuary on the south coast of Devon. It is a remote sandy bay, approximately 3...
Bob Jones
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West Mersea Beach
Derek Harper
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Hallsands
Gordon McKinlay
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Ingoldmells Beach
Mike Faherty 
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Bournemouth Southbourne Bournemouth Southbourne forms part of the 15 kilometre coastline of Poole Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a sand and s...
Enrapture Media enrapture
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Vazon Beach
John McLeish
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Millport Bay
Martin Bodman
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Gammons Head Beach
nick macneill
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Lowestoft Marine Parade Beach
Nick Smith 
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Southsea East Beach
Vincent Babb
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Fontygary Bay
Maurice D Budden 
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Downderry Beach
Evelyn Simak 
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Winterton Beach
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