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This is a sandy beach, ideal for making sand castles. The lighthouse tower was restored between 1983 and 1988.

Much of this scene has been developed at Wine Street on the left, and Sandy Leaze now covers the farmland in the foreground.

Before James Brindley's arrival much of the site of modern Stourport was just sandy common land, with a solitary inn and a ferry crossing point.

Ingoldisthorpe is an open village on the sandy soils of north-west Norfolk.

Just over a mile separates this popular sandy bay from St Ives. Above the coast path at Porthminster Point lived the 'Huer', whose job it was to watch for the arrival of the pilchard shoals.

'Pwllheli possesses perhaps the finest sandy beach in Wales', says the late Victorian guidebook, 'and the sanitary arrangements are all that could be desired'.

The age-old tradition of pony rides on the sand is captured in this photograph of South Lancing beach. The nearby road has houses either side, which limits public access in places.

Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea- bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.

Long ago, this part of the Hampshire coast consisted of marsh and sandy wastes; it was from here that Henry III amassed his armies to re-conquer France.

All of this area of the sea front is now part of the Exmouth Fun Park, a modest theme park for the young and not so young who want a break from the miles of sandy beaches.

This fine beach of golden sand is seen in its early days as a bathing resort.

However, St Andrew's was built to replace a 13th-century church, only part of which still stands and now serves as a mausoleum for the Sandys family of Ombersley Court.

Also in this area is the Sandy Lane Industrial Estate, near Hartlebury Common.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

The wide, low-lying, sandy beach here was formed by structural faults.

The Lincolnshire coast is well known for its sandy beaches, and Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea are outstanding, as this photograph shows.

The road at the foot of the hill still curves past the pub, but the houses adjacent to Sandy Close, to the left, have been rebuilt. The road is wider and most of the trees have gone.

The village is at the north end of a magnificent two-mile long sandy beach. Until the 1800s this stretch of coast was remote, its splendours familiar only to Ilfracombe fishermen.

Margate is today a bustling seaside resort on the Isle of Thanet, with many miles of sandy beaches, and typical seaside attractions.

Mothers and children paddle in the sandy pools of Towan Beach. On Tolcarne Headland in the background is the Great Western Hotel.

Low tide has joined together all the sandy beaches in the background, with Tolcarne, Great Western and Towan seen from left to right.

The north coast resorts have beaches of pebbles, unlike the sandy beaches of the east coast.

Beyond the harbour is the wide sandy estuary of the River Glaslyn, the treacherous Traeth Mawr.

Beyond the harbour is the wide sandy estuary of the River Glaslyn, the treacherous Traeth Mawr.