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Trevor Rickard
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Shipload Bay
fabiolah
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Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Beach
John Winterbottom
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Mwnt Beach Traeth Mwnt beach
Roger Smith
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Seaham Hall Beach Seaham Hall Beach is a gently sloping resort beach with the designated area measuring approximately 800 metres in len...
Anne Burgess
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Cushendun Beach
Richard Webb 
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Spittal Quay Beach
Albert Bridge
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Warrenpoint
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...
Andy Stephenson
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Lyme Regis Front Beach Lyme Regis Front Beach is to the west of Lyme Regis on the south coast of Devon. The Cobb is a curved breakwater that...
Derek Harper
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Torre Abbey Beach
Andy Stephenson
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Sandgate Town Centre Beach
Sarah Charlesworth
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Spittal Beach
Steve Daniels 
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Plas Menai Beach
Robin Lucas
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Pentewan Pentewan is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a privately owned sandy beach resort, approximately 1.1 kilometres ...
John Webber
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Ryde West Beach
Patricia Steel
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Easthaven Beach
Lewis Clarke
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Sidmouth Jacobs Ladder Jacobs Ladder is on the south coast of Devon. It is a pebble beach, approximately 490 metres wide, backed by cliffs. ...
Chris Allen 
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Teignmouth Back Beach
Malcolm Street
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Fraisthorpe Fraisthorpe Beach is a rural sandy beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length with a gentle...
Danny Robinson
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Sheerness Sheerness bathing water is on the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, near the mouths of the Thames and Medwa...
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