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Daniel Kraft
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Shell Beach
Simon Carey
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Player's Beach This beach boasts a wide stretch of sand during low tide but regrettably, it diminishes significantly during high tid...
Trevor Durritt LRPS
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Shoebury East Shoebury East Beach is a long sandy/shingle beach that is backed by a large area of open grassland. It is a gently sh...
Trish Steel
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Marazion Mounts Bay is on the south coast of Cornwall. There are four designated bathing waters located around the bay - Wherr...
Roger Davies
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Moreton Beach
Dave Smethurst
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Traeth Tywyn Mawr Beach
Simon Carey
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Brighton Kemptown Beach
Alex Robinson
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Porth Neigwl Beach Porth Neigwl Beach is in Gwynedd, 1 kilometers south west of Llanengan.
Peter Eckersley
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Seascale Beach
Peter Smyly
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Hampstead Heath (Mens Pond) The Men's Pond is a former reservoir situated on the eastern side of Hampstead Heath. There is no beach, but there is...
Ray Girvan
Photo: Ray Girvan CC BY-SA 2.0
Dawlish Coryton Cove
Arriva
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Cowes To the west of the town, Cowes beach is mostly gravel and slopes into deep water with strong currents. At high tide t...
John McLeish
Photo: John McLeish CC BY-SA 2.0
Millport Bay
Trevor Rickard
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Southerndown Beach Dunraven Bay
Philip Halling 
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Overcombe Beach
Tim Marshall 
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Worbarrow Bay This beach welcomes dogs throughout the entire year.
P L Chadwick
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Bognor Regis Pier Beach Bognor Regis Pier Beach lies 2 kilometers south west of Felpham, West Sussex.
Richard Webb 
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Spittal Quay Beach
Gerald England
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Cleveleys Cleveleys is a sandy bathing water with small areas of rocks and pebbles. Groynes stretch for several kilometres up a...
Richard West 
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North Berwick West Beach
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