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Reading Tom from Reading UK
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Martyrs Bay Beach Located just south of the pier, lies a sandy cove that holds a gruesome history. In the year 806, this bay became the...
Martin Bodman
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Soar Mill Cove
Les Hull
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South Shields South Shields Beach is a resort beach south of the mouth of the River Tyne. It is a gently sloping sandy beach, 1.5 k...
Phil Williams
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Challaborough Challaborough is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 350 metres wide, surrounded b...
Robin Lucas
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Dawlish Warren Dawlish Warren is on the south coast of Devon and is a long sand spit extending across the mouth of the Exe Estuary. ...
Andy Potter
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Littlehampton The bathing water is a resort beach on the south coast in West Sussex, adjacent to Littlehampton Harbour. The bathing...
Gordon Hatton
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St Columba's Bay, At the southern edge of Iona lies a secluded beach made up of beautifully coloured pebbles. It is believed to be the ...
Eileen Littler 
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Pick Mere
Jeremy Owen
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Caerfai Beach The beach in question has been bestowed with the prestigious Green Coast Award, attesting to its high environmental s...
Steve Daniels 
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Great Yarmouth South Denes Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Hollicombe Beach
Tony Atkin
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Par Sands Par Sands is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a large sandy beach resort, approximately one kilometre wide, back...
Mike Dodman
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Porthoustock Porthoustack is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote pebble beach, approximately 240 metres wide, backed by...
Anne Burgess 
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Traeth Lligwy Beach
wfmillar
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Heads of Ayr Beach
Eric Jones
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Pentraeth Beach
peter robinson
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Newbiggin Moor Beach
Chris Heaton
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Druridge Bay South Duridge Bay South Beach is a remote bathing water on the north east coast of Northumberland. The designated bathing w...
Mick Garratt
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Scarborough South Sands
Sarah Charlesworth
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Culzean Beach
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