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The 8 best secret beaches in England

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Nanjizal, West Cornwall

Gaping sandstone caves look like they might once have held sleeping dragons and low tide reveals a white sand beach, though the shape of it changes depending on the winter storms

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Porthbeor Beach, South Cornwall

Decked with tropical gardens and secret churches, the Roseland peninsula is a lost-in-time sort of place.

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Speke’s Mill Mouth,North Devon

A 50-metre waterfall plunges down a chasm on to this vast empty bay on Devon’s lesser known “shipwreck coast”.

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Gammon Head, South Devon

The best of a trio of pearly, rugged coves along this southerly stretch of south Devon coast.

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Worbarrow Bay, Tyneham, Dorset

In 1943 the villagers of Tyneham here were evicted from their idyllic coastal location in the remote Dorset ­Purbecks in order for the Army to set up a temporary training ground for the war effort.

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Brancaster, Norfolk

The beach and dunes here stretch for miles in both directions. To the east is Titchwell Marsh nature reserve, famous for its migrating birds.

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Covehithe, Suffolk

The lane ends abruptly at the crumbling cliff edge and a roofless church in a lost village stands surrounded by empty fields. This is an eerie kind of place and a visceral reminder of the power of the sea.

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Birling Gap, Sussex

A switchback metal stairway and a vertiginous boat-launching ramp lead down to the wildest beach in Sussex.

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