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Dr Neil Clifton
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Polurrian Cove Polurrian Cove is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a rural sandy cove, approximately 330 metres wide, surrounded...
JHannanBriggs 
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Huttoft Beach
Simon Huguet
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Portreath Portreath is on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sand and shingle beach resort, approximately 520 metres wide, ba...
Trevor Rickard
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Southerndown Beach Dunraven Bay
David Pickersgill
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Morecambe Clock Tower Beach
Tony Atkin
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Kennack Sands
OLU
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Ynyslas Beach
Eugene Birchall
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Budleigh Salterton Beach Budleigh Salterton Beach is about 500 meters east of Budleigh Salterton.
Nigel Callaghan
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Morfa Bychan Holiday Park Beach
Derek Harper
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Hallsands
Steve  F
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Featherbed Rocks Beach
DS Pugh
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Harlech Beach
Alan Hughes
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Bendricks Beach Bendricks Beach is in Vale of Glamorgan 2 kilometers east of Barry.
Steve Daniels
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Meadfoot Meadfoot is on the south coast of Devon. It is a shingle and rocky beach resort, approximately 800 metres wide, backe...
Paul Gillett
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Birling Gap Birling Gap is a small remote bay east of Beachy Head in East Sussex. The beach is approximately 300 metres (m) wide ...
Trevor Rickard
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Laugharne Beach
Stephen McKay
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Aberporth Beach Aberporth Beach is situated 100 meters north east of Aberporth in Ceredigion.
colin grice
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Sandsend Beach
Trevor Durritt LRPS
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Shoebury East Beach
John Allan
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Weymouth Central Weymouth Central is on the Dorset coast. It is a sand and shingle beach, approximately one kilometre wide, close to W...
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