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Sandown and Shanklin Independent Lifeboat Station is located at a boathouse on the Western Esplanade at Sandown, a town overlooking Sandown Bay, on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
Sandown Town Hall is a municipal building in Grafton Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Sandown Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
National Heritage List for England number: 1034283
Redcliff Battery (map reference SZ622854) is a battery located to the west of the Culver Cliffs and east of Yaverland on the Isle of Wight, England. It is one of the many Palmerston Forts built on the island to protect it in response to a perceived French invasion. Construction of the battery began in April 1861 and was complete by September 1863 at a cost of £4,776. Most of it has fallen into the sea. Only small amount left May 2020
Sandown Barrack Battery (map reference SZ594837) is a battery located in Sandown Bay close to Sandown on the Isle of Wight in England. It is one of the many Palmerston Forts built on the island to protect it in response to a perceived French invasion.
National Heritage List for England number: 1019195
Sandown Castle was a Device Fort built at Sandown on the Isle of Wight by Henry VIII in 1545 to protect against the threat of French attack. Constructed from stone with angular bastions, its design was a hybrid of Italian military architectural thinking with traditional English military design. The site was raided by a French force that summer while the fortification was still being constructed. The site suffered from coastal erosion and the castle was demolished in 1631.
Sandown Fort (map reference SZ597839) is a fort built in Sandown on the Isle of Wight in the middle of Sandown Bay. It is one of the many Palmerston Forts built on the island to protect it in response to a perceived French invasion. It was a replacement of the earlier Sandown Diamond Fort as, in 1859, the Royal Commission felt it did not offer suitable protection. Construction of the fort began in April 1861 and was completed by September 1864 at a cost of £73,876. In later documents it is often referred to as Granite Fort. The fort originally had 18 9-inch R.M.L guns facing the sea behind iron shields, these guns were later upgraded and an extra 5 inches of armor was added.
Yaverland Battery is a battery on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. It was constructed between 1861 and 1864.
National Heritage List for England number: 1021443
National Heritage List for England number: 1034284
National Heritage List for England number: 1034285
National Heritage List for England number: 1034286
Street address: High Street, Sandown PO36 8AF (from Wikidata)
Street address: Sandown Pier, Esplanade, Sandown, Isle of Wight, England (from Wikidata)
Street address: Albert Road, Sandown, PO36 8AN, England (from Wikidata)
Street address: Station Avenue, Sandown, PO36 8HB, England (from Wikidata)
Sandown is a seaside resort and civil parish on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England. The neighbouring resort of Shanklin and the settlement of Lake are sited just to the south of the town. Sandown has a population of 7,125 according to the 2021 Census, and the three Sandown Bay settlements (the others being Lake and Shanklin) form a built-up area of more than 20,000 inhabitants. Sandown is the Bay's northernmost town, with its easily accessible, sandy beaches running continuously from the cliffs below Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north.
UK Government Statistical Service code: E04001311
Sandown railway station is a railway station serving Sandown on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located on the Island Line from Ryde to Shanklin.
UK railway station code: SAN
Yaverland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is just north of Sandown on Sandown Bay. It has about 200 houses. About 1⁄3 of a mile away from the village is the Yaverland Manor and Church. Holotype fossils have been discovered here of Yaverlandia and a pterosaur, Caulkicephalus. The White Air extreme sports festival was held annually at Yaverland pay and display car park between 1997 and 2008, but moved to Brighton for 2009.
website: http://www.christchurchsandown.org.uk/; National Heritage List for England number: 1365368
website: http://www.stjohnssandown.org.uk/; National Heritage List for England number: 1034282
Dinosaur Isle is a purpose-built dinosaur museum located in Sandown on the Isle of Wight in southern England.
Street address: Culver Parade, Sandown PO36 8QA (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.dinosaurisle.com/, https://www.dinosaurisle.com/
The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, previously known as the Isle of Wight Zoo and Sandown Zoo, is a wildlife sanctuary on the coastline of Sandown, Isle of Wight. At 8.5 acres, it is the largest collection of exotic animals on the Island.
website: https://isleofwightzoo.com, https://wildheartanimalsanctuary.org/
St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland is a parish church in the Church of England located in Yaverland, Isle of Wight.
National Heritage List for England number: 1365369
Yaverland Manor is a medieval manor house in Yaverland, near Sandown, on the Isle of Wight. It was reconstructed in c. 1620 with alterations c. 1709. It became a Grade I listed building in 1949.
National Heritage List for England number: 1365370
National Heritage List for England number: 1268493
Street address: Sandown Library, High Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 8AF (from Wikidata)
The National Poo Museum on the Isle of Wight, southern England, was a museum dedicated to the collection, conservation and display of faeces. The museum, which opened on 25 March 2016, originally as a mobile museum, is now permanently located at Sandown Barrack Battery. In 2025, the museum went on a year-long road tour, and therefore was in hiatus at the normal location. It is not permanently closed.
website: https://www.poomuseum.org
Street address: The Bay Church of England School, Winchester Park Road, Isle of Wight, Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 9BA (from Wikidata)
EDUBase URN: 136013; website: http://www.bayceschool.org
National Heritage List for England number: 1468110