Sandown
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 and the settlement of Lake in between. Together with Shanklin, Sandown creates a built-up area of 21,374 residents. The northern most town of Sandown Bay, Sandown is known for its stretches of easily accessible, sandy coastline. The resort's coastlines run continually from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The community expanded as a Victorian resort bordered by a wide range of all-natural attributes. The coastal and also inland areas of Sandown become part of the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve assigned by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in June 2019, and Sandown's sea front as well as clifftops create part of the Isle of Wight Coastal Path. The Bay that gives Sandown its name is an exceptional example of a concordant coastline with a total of 5 miles of well-developed tidal beaches stretching right from Shanklin to Culver Down because of 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 obtainable to the public, mainly had and taken care of by the National Trust. It sustains common chalk downland wildlife, together with seabirds as well as predators which nest on the adjoining high cliffs. Nearby are Sandown Degrees in the flood plain of the River Yar, one of the few freshwater marshes on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Resident Nature Reserve is a prominent place for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, obtained by the Hampshire and also Isle of Wight Wildlife Rely On 2012, is an area to spot kingfishers and also water voles. Additional inland, Borthwood Copse provides delightful woodland walks, with bluebells aplenty in the Springtime. The location's aquatic sub-littoral zone, consisting of the reefs and seabed, also has the wildlife designation Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a petrified forest is partly disclosed in the northern part of the Bay, and fragments of petrified wood are frequently washed up on the beach.
