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Simon Carey
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Brighton Kemptown Beach
Christine Matthews
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Compton Bay Hanover Point / Compton Bay is a rural beach on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight. From the foot of the cliff...
Peter Church
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Singing Sands
ronnie leask
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Lundin Links Beach
Bob Embleton
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Long Rock Beach
fabiolah
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Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Beach
Andy Radcliffe
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Kirk Michael Beach
Bob Embleton
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Penzance Mounts Bay is on the south coast of Cornwall. There are four designated bathing waters located around the bay - Wherr...
James T M Towill 
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Sandhead Beach
Tony Atkin
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Tregaseal Beach
jeff collins
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Salcombe South Sands
Dave Dunford
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St Bees The beach is steeply sloping and pebbly leading to a large area of flat sand closer to the sea. There are steep cliff...
Nigel Williams
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Felinheli Sailing Club Beach
Adrian Cable
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Dunwich Beach
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 Downer
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Periglis
Stephen McKay
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Mortehoe Rockham Bay
Chris Collard
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Poole Harbour Rockley Sands Poole Harbour Rockley Sands is in Poole Harbour on the Dorset coast. It is a small sand and mud beach, approximately ...
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...
Mike Pennington
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Ainsdale The bathing water is a resort beach on the Sefton coastline in North West England. Ainsdale beach has a large expanse...
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