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Andy Peacock
Photo: Andy Peacock CC BY-SA 2.0
Hunstanton South Beach
Thomas Nugent
Photo: Thomas Nugent CC BY-SA 2.0
Largs Central Beach
Andrew Curtis
Photo: Andrew Curtis CC BY-SA 2.0
Druridge Bay North Duridge Bay North Beach is a remote bathing water on the north east coast of Northumberland. The designated bathing w...
Phil Williams
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Weston Main Weston-super-Mare Main is on the Somerset coast overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is a sandy beach, approximately t...
Richard Webb
Photo: Richard Webb CC BY-SA 2.0
Whitesands
somaliayaswan
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Grangetown Beach
Jonathan Billinger
Photo: Jonathan Billinger CC BY-SA 2.0
Bamburgh Castle Bamburgh Castle Beach is a long remote, sandy beach situated on the north Northumberland coast. The beach is 2.5 kilo...
Linda Bailey
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Broughton Bay Broughton Bay beach is 2 kilometers north west of Llangennith in the county of Swansea.
Alex Liivet from Chester United Kingdom
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Gaddings Dam
Mat Fascione 
Photo: Mat Fascione  CC BY-SA 2.0
Llanddona Beach
David Anstiss 
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Sandwich Bay Sandwich Bay is a rural beach on the East coast of Kent about 5 km south of Ramsgate. The steep shingle beach is towa...
Malcolm Etherington
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West Bay East Beach Dogs welcome between October and April
Pam Goodey
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East Quantoxhead Beach
Philip Halling 
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Cogden Beach Throughout the year, canines are welcome at our establishment without any restrictions.
Andrew Hill
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Haverigg Haverigg is a gently sloping gravel and sandy beach for which levels out to flat sand. At low tide the water retreats...
Gerald England
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Cleveleys Cleveleys is a sandy bathing water with small areas of rocks and pebbles. Groynes stretch for several kilometres up a...
Jim Champion
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Poole Harbour Sandbanks Beach Poole Harbour Sandbanks Beach is situated 2 kilometers north of Sandbanks in Dorset.
wfmillar
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Kilchattan Bay
Gerald England
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Paignton Sands
Chris Allen 
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Teignmouth Back Beach
Beach explorer UK Source for water samples and information: the Environmental Protection Agency, users of the site and local municipalities.
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.