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Tom Jolliffe
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Sedgwell Cove
Eryka Hurst
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Perranuthnoe Perranuthnoe is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a rural sandy beach, approximately 350 metres wide, backed by c...
Robert Lamb
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Margate Westbrook Bay
Peter Church
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Withernsea Beach
Dr Astrid Stilma
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Camber Camber Sands is situated at the mouth of the river Rother in Rye Bay, East Sussex. The bathing water is a wide expans...
georama
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Beauport Beach Beauport Beach is situated 2 kilometers south of St. Brelade in Jersey.
Sarah Charlesworth
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Great Mattiscombe Beach
Bob Ford
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Portland Harbour Castle Cove Portland Harbour Castle Cove is in Portland Harbour on the Dorset coast. It is a sheltered sandy cove, approximately ...
Simon Carey
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Greatstone Beach
Paul Thomson
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Seamill Beach
David Dixon 
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Formby Victoria Road Beach
Oxyman
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Hampstead Heath (Mixed Pond) The Mixed Pond is one of a series of ponds in the south-west corner of Hampstead Heath formed by the damming of the H...
Diliff
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Joss Bay, Broadstairs Joss Bay is a gently sloping sandy beach about 500 metres long. The beach, backed by chalk cliffs, is popular with su...
Eric Jones
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Trefor Beach
Peter Eckersley
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Seascale Beach
Derek Harper
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Porthpean Porthpean is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 290 metres wide, surrounded by...
Tony Maguire
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Mill Bay
brian clark
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Denemouth South Beach
ronnie leask
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Lundin Links Beach
Eric Jones
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Beaumaris Beach Beaumaris Beach is 300 meters east of Beaumaris in the county of Isle of Anglesey.
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