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Pam Brophy
Photo: Pam Brophy CC BY-SA 2.0
Mumbles Head Beach
Row
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Polnare Cove
Peter Jordan
Photo: Peter Jordan CC BY-SA 2.0
Christchurch Bay Christchurch Bay is a resort beach at Barton on Sea on the south-west coast of Hampshire. It looks out across Christc...
Peter Jordan
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Christchurch Highcliffe Castle Christchurch Highcliffe Castle is in Christchurch Bay on the Dorset coast. The bay is approximately 13 kilometres wid...
Chmee
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Brighton Central Beach
Diliff
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Joss Bay, Broadstairs Joss Bay is a gently sloping sandy beach about 500 metres long. The beach, backed by chalk cliffs, is popular with su...
OLU
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Clarach North Beach Clarach North Beach is located in Ceredigion 100 meters west of Clarach.
Crispin Purdye
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Row Cove Row Cove beach is about 2 kilometers south east of Newton and Noss.
Paul Gillett
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Birling Gap Birling Gap is a small remote bay east of Beachy Head in East Sussex. The beach is approximately 300 metres (m) wide ...
Philip Halling
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Sandymouth Sandymouth is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach, approximately one kilometre wide, backed by pebble...
PAUL FARMER
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Deal Castle Beach
David Hawgood
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Formby Lifeboat Road Beach
MJ Reilly
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Walton Beach
Paul Thomson
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Seamill Beach
Colin Babb
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St Helens St Helens is a small bay situated on the east coast of the Isle of Wight at the mouth of Bembridge Harbour. Measuring...
Ian Balcombe
Photo: Ian Balcombe CC BY-SA 2.0
Keiss Beach
Christina Burford
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Boscastle Beach Boscastle Beach is 600 meters west of Boscastle in the county of Cornwall.
Andrew King 
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Penzance Mounts Bay
Tony Atkin
Photo: Tony Atkin CC BY-SA 2.0
Ness Cove Ness Cove is on the south coast of Devon, just south of the mouth of the Teign Estuary. It is a remote, secluded sand...
Penny Mayes
Photo: Penny Mayes CC BY-SA 2.0
Minster Leas Beach
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