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Peter Strugnell
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St Margaret`s Bay
David Crocker
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Red Point Red Point beach is a beach in Highland.
Trevor Durritt LRPS
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Shoebury East Shoebury East Beach is a long sandy/shingle beach that is backed by a large area of open grassland. It is a gently sh...
John Fielding
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Llanrhystud Beach
Chris Gunns
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Cwm yr Eglwys Beach Cwm Yr Eglwys is a breathtaking coastal village that boasts a small, yet charming sandy beach complete with convenien...
Bill Boaden 
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Slapton Sands Torcross Beach
Jeff Buck
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Prestatyn Ffrith Beach Prestatyn Ffrith Beach is 2 kilometers west of Prestatyn in the county of Denbighshire.
Peter S 
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Hampstead Heath (Ladies Pond) The Ladies' Pond is a former reservoir on the eastern side of Hampstead Heath. There is no beach but there are grassy...
L Willetts
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Leonards Cove
Colin Kinnear
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Southerness Beach
Roger W Haworth
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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...
Shaun Ferguson
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Weston Hard Beach
hayley green
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Borth Beach Borth Beach lies in Ceredigion, 200 meters north west of Borth.
Trevor Harris
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Chesil Beach Chesil Beach is about 4 kilometers north west of Portland. Dogs allowed on the seaward side from September to April.
Helen Wilkinson
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Tunstall Beach
Roger Cornfoot 
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Hope Cove Hope Cove is on the South coast of Devon. It is a remote sand and rock beach, approximately 370 metres wide, surround...
Sheila Russell
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Mexico Towans Mexico Towans is north of the mouth of the Hayle Estuary on the north coast of Cornwall. It is a sandy beach resort, ...
Jon Bunting from UK
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Great Yarmouth Pier Great Yarmouth is a large, busy and popular resort on the east coast of Norfolk. Yarmouth Pier beach is a wide sandy ...
Paul Glazzard
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Skipsea Beach
Derek Harper
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Porthpean Porthpean is on the south coast of Cornwall. It is a remote sandy beach, approximately 290 metres wide, surrounded by...
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