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Sandown has a population of 11,654 according to the 2021 Census, [1] and the three Sandown Bay settlements form a built-up area of more than 20,000 inhabitants. [2] 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.
Sandown is an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, in Sandton.It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.Sandown is both a residential and commercial area [2] and is home to the offices of many major national and international corporations as well as the Johannesburg Stock Exchange [3] in the area known as Sandton Central.
The present day Sanctuary is housed inside the shell of Sandown Fort, which was built in 1864. A zoo was first established on the site in the 1950s, originally known as Sandown Zoo before becoming the Isle of Wight Zoo in the 1970s. By this time it had fallen into disrepair, and was dubbed "The Slum Zoo of Britain" by The Sunday Times.
Sandown Bay is a broad open bay which stretches for much of the length of the Isle of Wight's southeastern coast. It extends 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (13.7 km) from Culver Down , near Yaverland in the northeast of the Island, to just south of Shanklin , near the village of Luccombe in the southwest. [ 1 ]
Sandown is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,548 at the 2020 census, [2] up from 5,986 at the 2010 census. History
The former Sandown Depot is located on the north side of the village center of Sandown, just off Main Street between Depot Road and the former railroad right-of-way now occupied by the Rockingham Recreational Trail. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, measuring about 20 by 50 feet (6.1 m × 15.2 m).
In 1923, the Isle of Wight's first geological museum opened in Sandown, under the name of the "Museum of Isle of Wight Geology". [3] The £2.7 million cost of Dinosaur Isle, the new museum, was provided by Isle of Wight Council and the National Lottery Millennium Commission. [4] Dinosaur Isle opened to visitors on 10 August 2001.
Until September 2009, three tourist road trains operated along the seafront of Ryde, Shanklin and Sandown. The services were run by Southern Vectis under contract to Isle of Wight Council. In April 2010, it was announced that the vehicles would retire due to maintenance costs. In January 2011, the Dotto Trains were sold to a dealer in Llandudno ...