Back of the Wight
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- An area on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
- 1947 May and June, K. Westcott Jones, “The Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 145–146:
- 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.