Sandown
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.
- 01St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland
Church in Yaverland, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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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.
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 → Sandown120 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £18–24
- Bristol → Sandown134 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Sandown146 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · £20–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Sandown – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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