Sandown is a seaside resort as well as civil parish on the south-east coastline of the Isle of Wight, UK with the resort of Shanklin to the south and also the settlement of Lake in between. Along with Shanklin, Sandown forms a built-up area of 21,374 residents. The northernmost community of Sandown Bay, Sandown is understood for its stretches of easily available, sandy coastline. The resort's coastlines run constantly from the high cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. The community grew as a Victorian resort surrounded by a wealth of all-natural features. The coastal as well as inland locations of Sandown are part of the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve designated by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in June 2019, as well as 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 excellent example of a concordant coastline with an overall of five miles of strong tidal beaches stretching 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 easily accessible to the general public, mostly possessed and also managed by the National Trust. It supports normal chalk downland wildlife, in addition to seabirds and also predators which nest on the adjacent high cliffs. Close-by are Sandown Levels in the flood plain of the River Yar, one of minority freshwater marshes on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Citizen Nature Reserve is a prominent place for birdwatching. Sandown Meadows Nature Reserve, obtained by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Rely On 2012, is a place to find kingfishers and water voles. Additional inland, Borthwood Copse provides wonderful forest strolls, with bluebells aplenty in the Springtime. The location's aquatic sub-littoral area, including the reefs and seabed, additionally has the wildlife designation Special Area of Conservation. At extreme low tide, a scared woodland is partly revealed in the north part of the Bay, and also fragments of petrified timber are usually washed up on the beach.