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Lis Burke
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Lunan Bay
Tony Atkin
Photo: Tony Atkin CC BY-SA 2.0
Pendower Pendower is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 850 metres wide, backed by low ...
Alan Bowring
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St. Marys Well Bay
Des Colhoun
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Banff Bridge Beach Banff Bridge Beach is located in Aberdeenshire 500 meters east of Banff.
Jonathan Thacker 
Photo: Jonathan Thacker  CC BY-SA 2.0
Walney Sandy Gap
Eirian Evans
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Llandudno North Shore 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 ...
Tim Marchant
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Felixstowe South Felixstowe is a resort town but is also home to the country's largest container port on the Orwell Estuary. Felixstow...
Alan Heardman
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Moggs Eye Moggs Eye beach is also known as Huttoft beach and is a quiet rural beach. It is sandy and surrounded by dunes and un...
chris lovelock
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Plymouth Hoe East Plymouth Hoe East is near the centre of Plymouth on the south coast of Devon. It is a shingle and rock beach approxim...
pam fray
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Tankerton Beach
Tony Atkin 
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Northcott Mouth Beach
nick macneill
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Morfa Dinlle Beach
Maurice D Budden 
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Downderry Beach
Trevor Rickard
Photo: Trevor Rickard CC BY-SA 2.0
Porthcurnick Porthcurnick is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 210 metres wide, backed by ...
Alison Rawson
Photo: Alison Rawson CC BY-SA 2.0
Seahouses North Seahouses North Beach is a long remote beach situated on the north Northumberland coast. Measuring nearly two kilomet...
Anne Burgess
Photo: Anne Burgess CC BY-SA 2.0
Strathlene Beach
Dara Jasumani
Photo: Dara Jasumani CC BY-SA 2.0
Westdale Beach
Stanley Howe
Photo: Stanley Howe CC BY-SA 2.0
Crimdon Beach
Andy Beecroft
Photo: Andy Beecroft CC BY-SA 2.0
Danes Dyke Beach
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