Sandown
Sandown is a seaside resort and also civil parish on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom 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 northern most town of Sandown Bay, Sandown is known for its stretches of easily accessible, sandy shoreline. The resort's beaches run continuously from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The town grew as a Victorian resort bordered by a wealth of natural features. The coastal and also inland locations of Sandown belong to the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve assigned by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in June 2019, and also 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 instance of a concordant shoreline with a total amount of 5 miles of well-developed tidal coastlines extending all the way from Shanklin to Culver Down because of Longshore drift. This makes Sandown Bay house to one of the longest unbroken beaches in the British Isles. To the north-east of the community is Culver Down, a chalk down accessible to the public, mainly possessed as well as taken care of by the National Trust. It supports regular chalk downland wild animals, together with seabirds and birds of prey which nest on the adjacent cliffs. Neighboring are Sandown Levels in the flood plain of the River Yar, one of minority freshwater wetlands on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Citizen Nature Reserve is a prominent spot for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, obtained by the Hampshire as well as Isle of Wight Wildlife Rely On 2012, is a place to identify kingfishers and also water voles. Further inland, Borthwood Copse supplies wonderful forest walks, with bluebells aplenty in the Springtime. The area's aquatic sub-littoral area, consisting of the coral reefs and seabed, additionally has the wildlife classification Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a scared forest is partially exposed in the northern part of the Bay, as well as pieces of scared timber are commonly washed up on the beach.
