Video: The 12 best beaches in Scotland

Sandalwood Bay, one of two Scottish beaches named in a list of the 50 best in the world. Picture: Wikimedia/CC

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ENJOY the beauty in our run through of Scotland’s most beloved beaches, as selected by the users of Scotsman.com’s official Facebook page.

Following the news that Luskentyre beach on the Isle of Harris had been voted among the top ten beaches in the UK, we at Scotsman.com asked our Facebook users to tell us their favourite Scottish beach.

After receiving a terrific amount of feedback we took the most popular comments, found suitable photographs to highlight the scenic beauty and put them together in a video.

We hope you enjoy.

The beaches in running order are:

West Sands - St Andrews

Vatersay Bay - Outer Hebrides

Balnakeil Bay - Sutherland

Lunan Bay - Angus

Mellon Udrigle - Ross-shire

Coral Beach - Skye

Sanna Bay - Ardnamurchan, Lochaber

Vaul Bay - Tiree, Inner Hebrides

Oldshoremore - Sutherland

Calgary Bay - Mull

Berneray - South of Harris

Melness Sands - Sutherland

A big thank you to Pat Wilson, Mary McIndoe, David Shepherd, Lee S Watt, Anne Galloway Wood, Anna Alicja Olesiak, Lizz Rennie, Geoffrey S Fidler, Joanna Byrne, Liz Ward, Linda Pender McVey, Mairi Logie and all the others who made suggestions through our Facebook page.