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Worth seeing in and around Sandown

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland

    Church in Yaverland, Isle of Wight, England, UK

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dinosaur Isle

    Dinosaur museum on the Isle of Wight

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Newchurch

    Church in Newchurch, Isle of Wight, England, UK

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bembridge Down

    Hill on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Mary's Church, Brading

    Church in Brading, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Brading Down

    Hill on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK

    3 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary

    Zoo on the Isle of Wight, UK

    1.8 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Nunwell House

    Country house in Brading, Isle of Wight, England, UK

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    America Wood

    Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Isle of Wight

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Sandown Castle

    Device Fort built at Sandown on the Isle of Wight

    1.1 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Sandown

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 103 km · Bristol (BRS), 136 km
Stations
Isle of Wight/Sandown Airport, 1.5 km · Sandown railway station, 600 m · Shanklin railway station, 2.4 km · Brading railway station, 3.3 km · Lake railway station, 700 m
  • London → Sandown
    120 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £18–24
  • Bristol → Sandown
    134 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Sandown
    146 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · £20–26
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sandown

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sandown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy ferry or hovercraft: The Fast Cat operated by Wightlink runs just about every half hour in the summer.
  • Go nextThe ferry takes you back to Portsmouth on the mainland, or you can sail from Cowes to Southampton.

From Wikivoyage: Ryde, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    11 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    253 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    512 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    608 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    645 km

If you know how people move in Sandown – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Sandown

  • Shanklinvillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England2.5 km
  • Bradingtown in Isle of Wight, England, UK3.4 km
  • Lakevillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, UK500 m
  • Newchurchvillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, in England3.6 km
  • Adgestonevillage on the Isle of Wight, England, UK2.6 km
  • Alverstonevillage on the Isle of Wight, in England, United Kingdom2.3 km