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Sandown
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 and also the settlement of Lake in between. Along with Shanklin, Sandown creates a built-up area of 21,374 inhabitants. The northern most community of Sandown Bay, Sandown is understood for its stretches of quickly available, sandy shoreline. The resort's coastlines run constantly from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The community grew as a Victorian resort surrounded by a wide range of natural attributes. The seaside and inland areas of Sandown become 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 amount of 5 miles of well-developed tidal beaches extending all the way from Shanklin to Culver Down because of Longshore drift. This makes Sandown Bay home to among 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, mostly owned and also handled by the National Trust. It supports typical chalk downland wild animals, in addition to seabirds and predators which nest on the adjoining high cliffs. Nearby are Sandown Degrees in the flood plain of the River Yar, among the few freshwater marshes 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 and also Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust in 2012, is an area to spot kingfishers as well as water voles. Further inland, Borthwood Copse gives wonderful timberland strolls, with bluebells aplenty in the Springtime. The area's marine sub-littoral zone, including the coral reefs as well as seabed, likewise has the wild animals classification Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a scared forest is partly exposed in the northern part of the Bay, as well as pieces of petrified timber are commonly washed up on the coastline.