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Evelyn Simak
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West Runton West Runton is predominately a sand and shingle beach, but also has some rocky areas and is backed by a sandy cliff. ...
Helen Wilkinson
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Tunstall Tunstall is currently closed, there is no safe access to bathers due to coastal erosion. Tunstall Beach is a long rur...
Alan Bowring
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Limpert Bay
Nigel Chadwick
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Herne Bay Central The bathing water is a resort beach on the north Kent coast close to Herne Bay town centre. The shingle beach is gent...
Andrew Curtis
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Tynemouth Cullercoats Beach
Lewis Clarke 
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Ryde Central Beach
Nigel Chadwick
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Reculver Beach Reculver Beach is a beach in Kent.
Mick Garratt
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Scarborough South Sands
Brian Henley
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Saunton Sands
RichTea
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St. Just Priests Cove
JOHN SIMPSON
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Weston-super-Mare Royal Sands
Peter Eckersley
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Seascale The bathing water is a gently sloping, shingle beach giving way to a large, flat sandy area towards the sea. There is...
Phil Thirkell
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Tynemouth Short Sands
Brian
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Sharrow Sharrow beach is in Whitsand Bay on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a small sand and rock cove approximately 300 m...
Tom Jolliffe
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Goodrington Goodrington is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 900 metres wide, backed by Good...
Dr Richard Murray
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Tentsmuir Sands
Mick Garratt
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Redcar Stray Beach Redcar Stray Beach is 2 kilometers east of Redcar in the county of Redcar and Cleveland.
Christine Matthews 
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Plymouth Hoe East Beach
Andrew Hill
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Haverigg Haverigg is a gently sloping gravel and sandy beach for which levels out to flat sand. At low tide the water retreats...
Andrew Longton
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Lowestoft Gunton Denes Beach
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