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Dr Richard Murray
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Tentsmuir Sands
N Chadwick
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Charlestown Charlestown is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a pebble and shingle beach resort, approximately 290 metres wide...
Trish Steel
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Christchurch Avon Beach Christchurch Avon Beach is in Christchurch Bay on the Dorset coast. The bay is approximately 13 kilometres wide from ...
Simon Carey
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Hove West Beach
Bob Embleton
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Penzance Wherry Town Beach
Mr Eugene Birchall 
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Poole Harbour Rockley Sands Poole Harbour Rockley Sands beach lies in Dorset, 2 kilometers west of Turlin Moor.
Anthony Foster
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Seaton Sluice Beach
Immanuel Giel
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Morecambe South The bathing water at Morecambe South is gently sloping and with small pebbles. There is a strip of beach exposed thro...
Tony Atkin
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Kennack Sands
Christine Matthews
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Holy Island Beach
Chris Shaw
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Baglan Beach Baglan Beach is 3 kilometers west of Port Talbot in the county of Neath Port Talbot.
Florian Pépellin
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St Brelade\'s Beach
Malc McDonald 
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Worthing West Parade Beach
Anthony Parkes 
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Salcombe North Sands
Pauline Eccles
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Newport Slipway Beach
Dennis Turner
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Tenby North Beach The beach boasts several attractive features, including the Blue Flag Award, making it an ideal spot for families and...
gary radford
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Sheringham Sheringham is a former fishing village, but is now a seaside town which still has fishing and crab boats plying trade...
Hugh Craddock
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Daymer Bay Daymer Bay is at the mouth of the River Camel opposite the town of Padstow on the north coast of Cornwall. This is a ...
Rob Purvis 
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Sandy Bay
JThomas
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Wilsthorpe Wilsthorpe Beach is an extensive rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is 1.8 kilometres in length wi...
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