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Ian Capper
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Overstrand Beach
Rob Whitehead
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Weston-super-Mare Uphill Slipway Weston-super-Mare Uphill Slipway beach is on the Somerset coast overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is a sandy beach ...
Philip Pankhurst 
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Abbotsbury Beach Dogs are welcome throughout the entire year.
Bill Boaden 
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Aber Forrest
John Haynes 
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Dwyrain y Rhyl - Rhyl east
Jim Strang 
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West Voe Sands
Nigel Cox
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Frinton Beach
Tony Hodge
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Cold Knap Beach Cold Knap Beach is in Vale of Glamorgan 2 kilometers south west of Barry.
Andy F
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Longhoughton Steel Beach
Stephen McKay
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Goodrington Beach
Robin Drayton 
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Traeth Llyfn Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Kingsbarns Beach
Nick Andrews
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Brandy Cove Brandy Cove beach is in Swansea, 1 kilometers south east of Bishopston.
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...
wfmillar
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Irvine Beach
hayley green 
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Thornwick Bay
Nigel Homer
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Porthluney Porthluney is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote, sheltered sandy beach, approximately 380 metres wide. S...
Alex McGregor 
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Cresswell Beach Cresswell Beach lies 400 meters north west of Cresswell, Northumberland.
Simon Carey 
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Brighton Kemptown Brighton is a large resort situated on the Sussex coast of the English Channel. Brighton Kemptown beach is east of Br...
Ross
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Ballyhalbert Beach Ballyhalbert Beach is 300 meters north west of Ballyhalbert in the county of County Down.
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.