Sandown is a seaside resort and civil parish on the south-east shore of the Isle of Wight, UK with the resort of Shanklin to the south as well as the negotiation of Lake in between. Together with Shanklin, Sandown creates a built-up area of 21,374 residents. The northern most community of Sandown Bay, Sandown is understood for its stretches of quickly accessible, sandy coastline. The resort's beaches run continuously from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The town expanded as a Victorian resort surrounded by a riches of all-natural functions. The coastal and inland locations of Sandown are part of the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve marked by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in June 2019, as well as Sandown's sea front and also clifftops create part of the Isle of Wight Coastal Path. The Bay that offers Sandown its name is an outstanding instance of a concordant shoreline with a total of five miles of strong tidal beaches extending completely from Shanklin to Culver Down because of Longshore drift. This makes Sandown Bay house to one of the lengthiest unbroken coastlines in the British Isles. To the north-east of the town is Culver Down, a chalk down obtainable to the general public, mainly had and managed by the National Trust. It sustains regular chalk downland wildlife, along with seabirds and also predators which nest on the adjacent cliffs. Nearby are Sandown Degrees in the flood plain of the River Yar, among minority freshwater wetlands on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Local Nature Reserve is a popular area for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, acquired by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Count On 2012, is a location to find kingfishers and also water voles. Further inland, Borthwood Copse supplies wonderful forest walks, with bluebells aplenty in the Springtime. The location's aquatic sub-littoral zone, including the coral reefs and also seabed, likewise has the wild animals designation Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a petrified woodland is partly disclosed in the northern part of the Bay, and fragments of petrified timber are often washed up on the coastline.
