Sandown
Sandown is a seaside resort and also civil parish on the south-east coastline of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom with the resort of Shanklin to the south and the negotiation of Lake in between. Together 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 easily obtainable, sandy shoreline. The resort's beaches run continuously from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The community grew as a Victorian resort bordered by a wealth of natural functions. The seaside and also inland locations of Sandown belong to 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 an outstanding example of a concordant shoreline with a total amount of five miles of strong tidal coastlines stretching all the way from Shanklin to Culver Down because 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 available to the general public, mainly had and also handled by the National Trust. It supports normal chalk downland wildlife, along with seabirds as well as birds of prey which nest on the adjacent cliffs. Close-by are Sandown Degrees in the flood plain of the River Yar, among minority freshwater wetlands on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Local Nature Reserve is a popular place for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, obtained by the Hampshire as well as Isle of Wight Wildlife Count On 2012, is a place to find kingfishers as well as water voles. More inland, Borthwood Copse offers wonderful timberland strolls, with bluebells aplenty in the Spring. The area's marine sub-littoral area, including the coral reefs and seabed, also has the wildlife classification Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a petrified forest is partially revealed in the northern part of the Bay, and fragments of petrified wood are commonly washed up on the coastline.
