Sandown is a seaside resort and also civil parish on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, UK with the resort of Shanklin to the south as well as the settlement of Lake in between. Along with Shanklin, Sandown creates a built-up area of 21,374 residents. The northern most community of Sandown Bay, Sandown is known for its stretches of quickly available, sandy coastline. The resort's beaches run continually from the high cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The town expanded as a Victorian resort surrounded by a riches of natural features. The coastal as well as inland locations of Sandown belong to the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve assigned by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in June 2019, as well as Sandown's sea front and clifftops form part of the Isle of Wight Coastal Path. The Bay that offers Sandown its name is an outstanding example of a concordant coast with an overall of 5 miles of strong tidal beaches stretching right from Shanklin to Culver Down as a result of Longshore drift. This makes Sandown Bay home to one of the lengthiest unbroken beaches in the British Isles. To the north-east of the town is Culver Down, a chalk down easily accessible to the public, primarily had and taken care of by the National Trust. It sustains normal chalk downland wild animals, in addition to seabirds and predators which nest on the adjacent high cliffs. Close-by are Sandown Degrees in the flood plain of the River Yar, one of minority freshwater wetlands on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Resident Nature Reserve is a prominent place for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, gotten by the Hampshire as well as Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust in 2012, is an area to identify kingfishers and water voles. More inland, Borthwood Copse provides delightful woodland strolls, with bluebells aplenty in the Springtime. The location's aquatic sub-littoral area, including the reefs and also seabed, likewise has the wild animals classification Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a petrified woodland is partially exposed in the north part of the Bay, and pieces of scared wood are usually washed up on the beach.