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Phil Catterall
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Skinningrove Beach
Chris Whippet 
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Folkestone Beach
John Rostron 
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Pentle Bay
Alan Hughes
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Fall Bay
Gary Rogers
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Lusty Glaze Lusty Glaze is a picturesque Cornish beach, known locally as Lostyn Glas - which translates to a place to view blue b...
Row
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Porthgwarra Beach Porthgwarra Beach is 2 kilometers south of Porthcurno in the county of Cornwall.
Derek Harper
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Beacon Cove Beacon Cove is on the south coast of Devon at Torquay. It is a small pebbled cove, approximately 500 metres wide, nea...
Robin Webster
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Worthing The bathing water is a resort beach on the south coast in West Sussex, backed by an urban area with the town centre c...
Val Vannet
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Broughty Ferry Beach Broughty Ferry Beach is in Dundee City, 1 kilometers east of Broughty Ferry.
Shaun Ferguson
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Stonehaven Cowie Beach
Steve Daniels
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Barry Island Whitmore Bay Barry Island Whitmore Bay beach is located 2 kilometers south of Barry in the county of Vale of Glamorgan.
David Dixon 
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Formby Victoria Road Beach
David Brown
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Gruinard Beach
Anne Burgess
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Cullen Bay
Diane Sambrook
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Mouthwell Sands
Shaun Butler
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Sandy Haven Beach
Chris Downer
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Boscombe Beach - Bournemouth Dogs welcome between October and April
Chris J Dixon
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St Anthony Head Beach
Nigel Brown
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Twyni Bach Beach
Andy Beecroft
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Withernsea Withernsea Beach is a long sandy resort beach on the Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length. Behind the beach...
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