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Nick Smith
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Margate Fulsam Rock The bathing water is a resort beach on the north Kent coast close to Margate town centre. It is a gently shelving san...
Jim Champion
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Chapman's Pool This beach is open to dogs throughout the year.
Chris Downer
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Readymoney Cove Readymoney Cove is at the mouth of the Fowey Estuary on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy cove, appro...
Stanley Howe
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Inverbervie Beach
Peter Eckersley
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Seascale The bathing water is a gently sloping, shingle beach giving way to a large, flat sandy area towards the sea. There is...
Philip Halling 
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Godrevy Towans Godrevy Towans is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and rock beach, approximately 600 metres wide. Backed ...
Nigel Cox
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Margate Palm Bay
Paul Gillett 
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Littlehampton Coastguard Station Beach
Philip Halling
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Saunton Sands Saunton Sands bathing water is on the north coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort backed by sand dunes. The beac...
Martin Speck
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Solent Breezes Beach
Jim Champion
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Gwithian Towans Gwithian Towans is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and rock beach resort, approximately 670 metres wide,...
Row
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Polnare Cove
John McLeish
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Millport Bay
Alan Bowring
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St. Marys Well Bay
originalpickaxe
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Leigh Bell Wharf Beach
Mick Garratt
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Scarborough South Sands
Bob Jones
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Aldeburgh Beach Aldeburgh Beach lies 200 meters north of Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Colin Vosper
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Smugglers Cove
scillystuff
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Beachlands Central The bathing water is situated on the south coast of Hayling Island facing across the Solent. The bathing water is pri...
Phillip Perry
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Eastbourne North Beach
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