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Des Colhoun
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Banff Bridge Beach Banff Bridge Beach is located in Aberdeenshire 500 meters east of Banff.
Colin Kinnear
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Southerness Beach
Roger Cornfoot 
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Saint Audrie's Bay
Steve Daniels 
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Blue Anchor West Blue Anchor is on the coast of Somerset overlooking the Bristol Channel. The beach is shingle and sand, and the water...
Stephen Dawson
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Daymer Bay
Mick Garratt
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Seaton Carew North Beach
Helmut Zozmann 
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Dover Harbour Beach
Andy Beecroft
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Danes Dyke Beach
mattbuck category
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Breakwater Beach (Shoalstone) Shoalstone is at Brixham on the south coast of Devon. It is a shingle beach resort, approximately 650 metres wide, ne...
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...
Richard Law
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Newport North Beach Newport Sands boasts itself as the biggest beach found in Newport Bay, boasting over a mile of flat sand, along with ...
Steve Daniels 
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Sconce Point Located adjacent to Fort Victoria Country Park, there is a small, pebbly beach that may not be among our top preferen...
UserJamesmcmahon
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St. Andrews East Sands
Sarah Charlesworth
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Kingsbarns 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...
Bob Jenkins
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Pilling Sands
Alex Harris
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Nairn East Beach
M J Richardson
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Broad Sands Broad Sands is situated about 2 kilometers west of North Berwick.
Tom Jolliffe
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Man Sands
Andrew Woodhall
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Silecroft Beach
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