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Ray Girvan
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Dawlish Coryton Cove
Steve Daniels 
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Hoylake Red Rocks Beach
Pauline Eccles
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Barricane Beach
Ian Paterson
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Mablethorpe Town Mablethorpe Town beach is a busy resort with a wide and sandy beach. The beach is backed by a promenade and is close ...
hayley green 
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Thornwick Bay
Chris Downer 
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Lulworth Cove Lulworth Cove is on the Dorset coast, and is part of the Purbeck Heritage Coast. It is a sand and pebble resort bay, ...
JThomas
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St. Combs Beach
Peter Fuller
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Dunoon West Bay
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...
June Hodge 
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Kilvickeon Beach Isle of Mull To get to Kilvickeon beach, drive along Craignure to Fionnphort road until you reach the turn off just before Bunessa...
Adrian and Janet Quantock
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Weston-super-Mare Sand Bay Weston-super-Mare Sand Bay is on the Somerset coast overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is a sand and shingle beach r...
Sue Adair
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West Kirby Beach
Derek Harper
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Weymouth Greenhill Beach
Derek Harper
Photo: Derek Harper CC BY-SA 2.0
St Mary's Bay (Devon) St Mary's Bay is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 450 metres wide, backed by cl...
Colin MacInnes
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Embo Beach
Johnny Durnan
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Largs Pencil Beach
Julian Dowse
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Holkham Gap
Philip Halling 
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Seaton (Devon) Seaton is a resort town in Lyme Bay on the south coast of Devon. It is a shingle beach approximately one kilometre wi...
Andrew Longton
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Lowestoft Gunton Denes Beach
Maigheachgheal 
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Blue Anchor Beach Blue Anchor Beach is approximately 400 meters north east of Blue Anchor.
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