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Eryka Hurst
Photo: Eryka Hurst CC BY-SA 2.0
Hayle Towans The Hayle Towans is north of the mouth of the Hayle Estuary on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resor...
MJ Reilly
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Walton Beach
Chris Downer
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Boscombe Beach - Bournemouth Dogs welcome between October and April
OLU
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Southwick Beach
Ron Speed
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Scarborough Harbour Beach
Gwen and James Anderson
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Monifieth Beach
Chris Whippet 
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Folkestone Beach
Ian Cardinal 
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Old Colwyn Beach
Ashley Dace 
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Lowestoft Kirkley Cliff Beach
Martyn Gorman
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Cruden Bay
Ross
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Brown\'s Bay Brown\'s Bay beach is a beach in County Antrim.
DS Pugh
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Harlech Beach
Trish Steel
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Scarborough North Bay Scarborough North Beach is a large resort beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is 900 metres in length with a ge...
Lewis Clarke 
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Teignmouth Holcombe Beach
Reading Tom from Reading UK
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Martyrs Bay Beach Located just south of the pier, lies a sandy cove that holds a gruesome history. In the year 806, this bay became the...
Cameraman 
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Sandown Sandown beach on the south east coast of the Isle of Wight is near the centre of Sandown Bay. Flanked by the pier the...
Mick Garratt
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Redcar Stray Redcar Stray is the southernmost of four designated bathing beaches fronting the resort of Redcar. It is a gently-slo...
Kenneth Allen
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Swanpool Swanpool is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a pebble and sandy beach resort, approximately 140 metres wide, bac...
Richard Croft
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Clovelly Beach Clovelly Beach is located in Devon 800 meters north of Clovelly.
Peter Fuller
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Dunoon West Bay
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