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 negotiation of Lake in between. Along with Shanklin, Sandown develops a built-up area of 21,374 occupants. The northernmost community of Sandown Bay, Sandown is understood for its stretches of quickly obtainable, sandy shoreline. The resort's coastlines run continually 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 riches of all-natural functions. The coastal 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 clifftops create part of the Isle of Wight Coastal Path. The Bay that offers Sandown its name is a superb example of a concordant coastline with a total amount of five miles of well-developed tidal coastlines stretching all the way from Shanklin to Culver Down as a result of Longshore drift. This makes Sandown Bay house to one of the lengthiest unbroken coastlines in the British Isles. To the north-east of the community is Culver Down, a chalk down easily accessible to the general public, primarily possessed as well as handled by the National Trust. It supports common chalk downland wildlife, in addition to seabirds and predators which nest on the adjacent cliffs. Neighboring are Sandown Degrees in the flood plain of the River Yar, one of the few freshwater wetlands on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Resident Nature Reserve is a popular place for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, gotten by the Hampshire as well as Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust in 2012, is a location to detect kingfishers and water voles. More inland, Borthwood Copse provides fascinating forest strolls, with bluebells aplenty in the Springtime. 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 petrified forest is partly revealed in the northern part of the Bay, and also pieces of scared wood are typically depleted on the coastline.