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Tom Pennington
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Watergate Bay Watergate Bay is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a rural sandy beach approximately one kilometre wide, backed b...
Robin Webster 
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Chapman's Pool
Simon Carey
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Cuckmere Haven Beach Cuckmere Haven is a picturesque beach located in Seaford BN25 4AR, offering a picturesque destination for tourists an...
Rob  Lowe
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Swanlake Bay
Sarah Charlesworth
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Great Mattiscombe Beach
Simon Carey
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Hove West Beach
James Denham 
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Kinghorn Pettycur Beach
Pierre Terre
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Hillhead Beach Hillhead Beach is approximately 6 kilometers south of Fareham.
Stephen Horncastle
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Flamborough South Landing Flamborough South Landing Beach is a small rural beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. The beach is 300 metres in le...
Sarah Charlesworth
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Spittal Spittal Beach is a gently sloping resort beach approximately one kilometre long situated immediately south of the mou...
Lewis Clarke 
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Brean Beach Brean Beach is situated 600 meters south east of Brean in Somerset.
Dave Dunford
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St Bees The beach is steeply sloping and pebbly leading to a large area of flat sand closer to the sea. There are steep cliff...
Tanya Dedyukhina
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Eastbourne West Beach
Mick Lobb
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Port Eynon Bay Port Eynon Bay beach is approximately 600 meters south east of Port Eynon.
mattbuck category
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Southend Chalkwell Beach
Michael HillKing
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Samson
JOHN SIMPSON
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Weston-super-Mare Royal Sands
Richard Webb
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Strathy Bay
Matt Buck from London United Kingdom
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Oddicombe Beach
Stephen McKay 
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Stonehaven Central Beach
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.