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Steve Daniels 
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Plas Menai Beach
Basher Eyre
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Middleton-on-Sea Beach
Peter Wannop 
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Selwicks Bay
Sarah Smith 
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Hive Hive is in Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately one kilometre wide, backed by clif...
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...
Maurice D Budden 
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Greenaway Beach
John Charlton
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Poldhu Cove
Dot Potter
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Gronant Dunes Beach
Kate Jewell
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Little Fistral Beach Located to the north of the renowned Fistral Beach of Newquay, lies the picturesque Little Fistral beach. Accessible ...
Chris Gunns
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Saint\'s Bay
Jim Bain
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Elie Harbour Beach
David Smith 
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Weston-super-Mare Sand Bay
Anne Burgess
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Balmedie Beach Balmedie Beach is approximately 1 kilometers north east of Balmedie.
Bill Boaden 
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Slapton Sands Torcross Beach
David M Moore
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West Wittering The bathing water is situated on the south coast at the eastern side of Chichester Harbour entrance in West Sussex. T...
Martin Bodman
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Gammons Head Beach
Jim Strang 
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West Voe Sands
Bob Embleton
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Bouley Bay Bouley Bay beach is 1 kilometers north east of Trinity in the county of Jersey.
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...
Andrew Curtis
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Tynemouth Cullercoats Cullercoats Bay Beach is a gently sloping resort beach enclosed by piers at each end making a very sheltered bay.
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