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Simon Carey
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St Leonards St. Leonards is a resort beach within the district of Hastings in East Sussex. The beach is predominantly shingle, wi...
Albert Bridge
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Cranfield Beach Cranfield Beach is a beach in County Down.
John Ferguson 
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Seacliff Beach
John Davies
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Holland Beach
Deborah Tilley
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Llanelli Beach
JThomas
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Cayton Bay Cayton Bay beach is situated in the county of North Yorkshire, 5 kilometers south east of Scarborough.
Robin Webster
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Worthing The bathing water is a resort beach on the south coast in West Sussex, backed by an urban area with the town centre c...
Trish Steel
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Marazion Mounts Bay is on the south coast of Cornwall. There are four designated bathing waters located around the bay - Wherr...
Jon Wornham
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Garwick Beach
Roger Cornfoot
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Anstey\'s Cove Anstey\'s Cove beach is 2 kilometers north east of Torquay in the county of Torbay.
Derek Harper
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Paignton Paignton Sands Paignton Sands is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 800 metres wide, backed by a...
Maurice D Budden 
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Hele Bay
Evelyn Simak
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West Runton West Runton is predominately a sand and shingle beach, but also has some rocky areas and is backed by a sandy cliff. ...
Alex McGregor 
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Redgate Beach Redgate Beach is about 2 kilometers north east of Torquay.
Phil Williams
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Dunnet Beach
Trevor Durritt LRPS
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Shoebury East Shoebury East Beach is a long sandy/shingle beach that is backed by a large area of open grassland. It is a gently sh...
Philip Halling 
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Pendower Beach
Andy Brass
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Whitby Beach
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 ...
Chris J Dixon
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Rock Beach Rock Beach is in Cornwall 900 meters south west of Rock.
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