Sandown
Sandown is a seaside resort and civil parish on the south-east coastline of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom with the resort of Shanklin to the south and the settlement of Lake in between. Along with Shanklin, Sandown develops a built-up area of 21,374 inhabitants. The northern most town of Sandown Bay, Sandown is understood for its stretches of easily accessible, sandy coastline. The resort's beaches run constantly from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The town grew as a Victorian resort surrounded by a riches of natural attributes. The coastal as well as inland areas of Sandown are part of the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve designated by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in June 2019, and 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 example of a concordant coast with an overall of five miles of well-developed tidal beaches stretching all the way from Shanklin to Culver Down because of Longshore drift. This makes Sandown Bay residence to among the lengthiest unbroken coastlines in the British Isles. To the north-east of the community is Culver Down, a chalk down obtainable to the general public, mainly possessed and handled by the National Trust. It sustains typical chalk downland wildlife, along with seabirds and predators which nest on the adjacent high cliffs. Nearby are Sandown Levels in the flood plain of the River Yar, among the few freshwater marshes on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Local Nature Reserve is a prominent area for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, gotten by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust in 2012, is an area to identify kingfishers and also water voles. Additional inland, Borthwood Copse supplies wonderful forest walks, with bluebells aplenty in the Springtime. The area's marine sub-littoral zone, consisting of the reefs as well as seabed, likewise has the wildlife classification Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a petrified forest is partially revealed in the north part of the Bay, and pieces of scared timber are often washed up on the beach.
