Sandown is a seaside resort and also civil parish on the south-east coastline 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 occupants. The northernmost community of Sandown Bay, Sandown is understood for its stretches of conveniently available, sandy shoreline. The resort's beaches run continuously from the high cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The community expanded as a Victorian resort bordered by a riches of natural attributes. 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 clifftops develop part of the Isle of Wight Coastal Path. The Bay that offers Sandown its name is a superb instance of a concordant coastline with a total amount of 5 miles of well-developed tidal coastlines extending all the way from Shanklin to Culver Down due to Longshore drift. This makes Sandown Bay residence to among the longest unbroken beaches in the British Isles. To the north-east of the town is Culver Down, a chalk down accessible to the public, primarily possessed as well as handled by the National Trust. It sustains regular chalk downland wild animals, along with seabirds as well as predators which nest on the adjacent high cliffs. Neighboring are Sandown Levels 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 popular area for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, gotten by the Hampshire as well as Isle of Wight Wildlife Rely On 2012, is an area to find kingfishers and also water voles. Further inland, Borthwood Copse gives wonderful forest walks, with bluebells aplenty in the Spring. The location's marine sub-littoral zone, consisting of the coral reefs as well as seabed, likewise has the wildlife designation Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a scared woodland is partly revealed in the north part of the Bay, as well as pieces of scared timber are often washed up on the beach.