Sandown
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 and also the negotiation of Lake in between. Together with Shanklin, Sandown creates a built-up area of 21,374 occupants. The northern most community of Sandown Bay, Sandown is known for its stretches of easily available, sandy shoreline. The resort's beaches run constantly from the high cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The community expanded as a Victorian resort surrounded by a wealth of all-natural features. The coastal and inland locations of Sandown belong to the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve designated 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 a superb example of a concordant coast with an overall of five miles of strong tidal coastlines stretching completely from Shanklin to Culver Down due to Longshore drift. This makes Sandown Bay residence to among the lengthiest unbroken beaches in the British Isles. To the north-east of the town is Culver Down, a chalk down obtainable to the public, mostly owned and also handled by the National Trust. It supports common chalk downland wildlife, in addition to seabirds as well as birds of prey which nest on the adjacent high cliffs. Nearby are Sandown Degrees in the flood plain of the River Yar, among the few freshwater wetlands on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Resident Nature Reserve is a preferred area for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, acquired by the Hampshire as well as Isle of Wight Wildlife Count On 2012, is a place to identify kingfishers as well as water voles. More inland, Borthwood Copse supplies wonderful forest strolls, with bluebells aplenty in the Spring. The location's marine sub-littoral area, including the reefs as well as seabed, likewise has the wild animals designation Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a scared woodland is partly disclosed in the north part of the Bay, and also pieces of scared wood are frequently depleted on the coastline.
