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Sandsend was just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.

West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.

Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.

Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach.

Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach.

This view looks across the beach with numerous four-wheeled bathing machines that allowed modest entry into the sea for the serious business of sea-bathing.

This view looks across the beach with numerous four-wheeled bathing machines that allowed modest entry into the sea for the serious business of sea-bathing.

This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.

Architecturally, the building is more typical of arterial roads, rather than that expected beside the B3157 coast road (bottom right), a mile inland from the western end of the Chesil Beach.

The stout sea wall of today had not been built at the time of this photograph, hence the wide appearance of the beach.

The shingle expanse of Monmouth Beach extends seawards. The factory site became a Royal Air Force base for operating air-sea rescue craft and bombing range launches during the Second World War.

Charles and William Warren were boatmen and Robert Warren quarried sand and sold shingle from the beach to the south.

This well-known holiday resort, which has an excellent sandy beach, stands on the west coast of Wales at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Both Darwin and Ruskin enjoyed stays here.

The two-mile-long parade overlooks the sandy beach; at the west end an extensive area was laid out as winter gardens.

The two sandy beaches are separated by a headland crowned by a Norman castle, developed by Edward I.

Charles and William Warren were boatmen and Robert Warren quarried sand and sold shingle from the beach to the south.

A two-masted sailing ship lies in a mud berth, a washing line post leans on the beach and women in long skirts stand and look towards the harbour.

Bathing machines can be seen on the beach.

Beach shops now fill the front garden, and there is a car park in the café garden.

On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it. The Pier was built to accommodate the crowds, and was really two piers next to each other.

People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse.

People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse.

first bridge here dated from 1855, when local worthy Mrs Cornish allowed its construction at a cost of £26 10s using timbers taken from the sailing vessel Laurel, which had been wrecked on Sidmouth Beach

The picture shows a typical summer's day on east beach, with children building sandcastles or digging for creatures, treasures, or whatever their imagination desires.