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Philip Halling 
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Pendower Beach
Rose and Trev Clough 
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Helwell Bay
David Spencer
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Wharfe at Ilkley Stepping Stones This site is not a designated bathing water and will not be given a water quality classification. Samples are being c...
Basher Eyre
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Eastoke Beach
Chris Downer
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Boscombe Beach - Bournemouth Dogs welcome between October and April
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, ...
John Holmes
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Braystones Beach Braystones Beach is approximately 2 kilometers west of Beckermet.
Chris J Dixon
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Towan Beach
Thomas Nugent
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Gourock West Bay
Robert Cuthill
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Swansea Slipway Beach
Robin Drayton
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Tenby Castle Beach Castle Beach is a picturesque beach that has been awarded the Blue Flag award, certifying its cleanliness and safety....
Lis Burke
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Lunan Bay
Tony Atkin
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Pendower Pendower is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 850 metres wide, backed by low ...
David Long
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Silecroft Silecroft bathing water is a remote, steeply sloping, pebbly beach levelling out to flat sand closer to the sea. At h...
Roger Cornfoot
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Anstey's Cove (Torquay) Anstey's Cove is between Babbacombe and Torquay and is a small rocky beach, approximately 120 metres wide, nestling b...
Tiia Monto
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Swansea County Hall Beach
wfmillar
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Heads of Ayr Beach
Andrew Abbott 
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Rushy Bay
Derek Harper
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Fermain Beach
Kate Jewell
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Little Fistral Beach Located to the north of the renowned Fistral Beach of Newquay, lies the picturesque Little Fistral beach. Accessible ...
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.