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2 unusual facts about Sandown


Dover Pencester Road

15A (The Diamond) to Sandown via Dover ferry port, Walmer and Deal or to Canterbury via Buckland, Temple Ewell, Lydden and the A2.

Solenopsis fugax

It is the only member of its genus to be native to the British Isles, and although rare, it has been taken by Horace Donisthorpe in a number of localities on England's Southern coast, including Sandown and Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, and also in the south westerly region of Lyme Regis.


1972 Sandown 250

The 1972 Sandown 250 was an endurance motor race for Group E Series Production Touring Cars.

2001 Shell Championship Series

The championship, which was the third Shell Championship Series, began on 25 March 2001 at Phillip Island and ended on 2 December at Sandown after 13 rounds.

Alfredo Costanzo

At the insistence of his long-time open wheel rival turned touring car racer John Bowe, who to this day rates him as the best Australian driver he raced against, Costanzo was drafted into the Volvo Dealer Team in 1986 for the Castrol 500 at Sandown and the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst.

Alverstone

When Richard Webster became Chief Justice of England in 1900, he chose the title Lord Alverstone because it was the title he was permitted to choose which was "closest" to Sandown, one of his favourite locales.

Battle of Bonchurch

The plan for the advance of the French soldiers at Bonchurch may have been to burn Wroxall and Appuldurcombe, capture and consolidate a position on the heights of St. Boniface Down, and then move towards Sandown to link up with a French landing there.

Carols by Candlelight

One each in Clarence, Glenorchy and the main ceremony in Sandown Park in Sandy Bay, Hobart itself.

Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid followed up with wins at Sandown and Wincanton, before finishing third in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham, three lengths behind Pearlyman.

Dion George

He joined the Democratic Party in 1995 and, in 2005, was elected chairman of the DA branch in Sandown, Sandton.

Henry VIII Novices' Chase

The event is named after Henry VIII, who commandeered Esher (the location of Sandown Park) as a royal hunting ground in the sixteenth century.

High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight

1975–76 Rear-Admiral Joseph Leslie Blackham, C.B.,of " Downedge ", The Mall, Brading, Sandown.

National Cycle Route 23

Beyond Newchurch lies the village of Alverstone, with a final flat crossing with the minor road there before the route arrives at Sandown, on the edge of town between two holiday camp sites.

Sandown 500

The Sandown 500 was revived in 2011 as a round of the Australian Manufacturers' Championship.

Sandown Castle, Kent

Sandown Castle was one of Henry VIII's Device Forts or Henrician Castles built at Sandown, North Deal, Kent as part of Henry VIII's chain of coastal fortifications to defend England against the threat of foreign invasion.

Sandown Manor

In 1808 Sir William Oglander established his right to the manor of Sandown in an action against Winchester College, who had inclosed part of the waste land known as Ryal Heath.

Sandown Park railway station

Esher railway station is adjacent to Sandown Park racecourse in England.

Sandown Park railway station, Melbourne

The Sandown Racecourse and Sandown Greyhound Track are located near the station.

Sandown Racecourse

The Sandown Racecourse also features a motor racing circuit on the outside of the racecourse, referred to as Sandown Raceway.

Solario Stakes

The race was formerly held during Sandown Park's Variety Club Day, an annual fundraising event for the Variety Club.

Spring Vale Cemetery railway line

Throughout the first few months of 1951, the line was dismantled back to the western boundary of the Sandown Park Racecourse, and eventually back to the station side of Sandown Park Road.

Transport on the Isle of Wight

In the 1950s and 1960s, and before the Beeching Report, the Island boasted a comprehensive railway network based on a triangle of lines connecting Ryde, Newport, Sandown and Ventnor.

Sustrans National Cycle Network routes 22 and 23 have sections through the Isle of Wight, including off road sections of route 23 between Cowes and Newport and Newport and Sandown along disused railway lines.


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