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Tony Atkin
Photo: Tony Atkin CC BY-SA 2.0
Talland Bay
Roger W Haworth
Photo: Roger W Haworth CC BY-SA 2.0
St Annes North The bathing water is extremely flat in profile and sandy with up to 300 metres of sand exposed at low tide. Sand dune...
Peter Eckersley
Photo: Peter Eckersley CC BY-SA 2.0
Seascale Beach
Phil Williams
Photo: Phil Williams CC BY-SA 2.0
Dunnet Beach
Walter Baxter 
Photo: Walter Baxter  CC BY-SA 2.0
Thorntonloch Beach
Dot Potter
Photo: Dot Potter CC BY-SA 2.0
Gronant Dunes Beach
Brian Green
Photo: Brian Green CC BY-SA 2.0
Brightlingsea Beach
Tanya Dedyukhina
Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina CC BY 3.0
Great Yarmouth Power Station Beach
David and Rachel Landin
Photo: David and Rachel Landin CC BY-SA 2.0
Heacham Heacham North Beach is part of an extensive beach line which stretches north from the mudflats at Snettisham, up the ...
pam fray
Photo: pam fray CC BY-SA 2.0
Tankerton Beach
Simon Carey
Photo: Simon Carey CC BY-SA 2.0
Shoreham Kingston Beach
John McLeish
Photo: John McLeish CC BY-SA 2.0
Millport Bay
pam fray 
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Ramsgate Sands Ramsgate Sands beach is in Kent, 3 kilometers south of Broadstairs.
Paul Gillett
Photo: Paul Gillett CC BY-SA 2.0
Birling Gap Birling Gap is a small remote bay east of Beachy Head in East Sussex. The beach is approximately 300 metres (m) wide ...
Kate Jewell
Photo: Kate Jewell CC BY-SA 2.0
Bigbury-on-Sea South Bigbury-on-Sea South is close to the mouth of the River Avon on the south coast of Devon. The beach is approximately ...
Eileen Littler 
Photo: Eileen Littler  CC BY-SA 2.0
Pick Mere
Mat Fascione 
Photo: Mat Fascione  CC BY-SA 2.0
Llanddona Beach
David P Howard
Photo: David P Howard CC BY-SA 2.0
East Runton East Runton beach is a rural beach with cliffs and a rocky foreshore. At low tide there is an expanse of sand. The vi...
Phil Williams
Photo: Phil Williams CC BY-SA 2.0
Skipsea Skipsea Beach is a long rural beach situated on the Yorkshire coast. It is one kilometre in length and it is made up ...
Thomas Nugent
Photo: Thomas Nugent CC BY-SA 2.0
Gourock West Bay
Beach explorer UK Source for water samples and information: the Environmental Protection Agency, users of the site and local municipalities.
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Source of satellite-read water temperature: Copernicus Sentinel satellite data from the European Space Agency.