Back of the Wight

proper noun

An area on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. An area on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England.

    Other proposals were for an extension of the railway to Totland Bay, where the company had already acquired an hotel; and for a line from Freshwater to Brightstone [sic: Brighstone] and Ventnor, to serve the sparsely-populated south-western coast of the island, known as the Back of the Wight.

    1947 May and June, K. Westcott Jones, “The Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 145–146
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