Back of the Wight

English Proper noun Back of the Wight en area on the south coast of the co/Isle of Wight cc/England. en 1947 May and June K. Westcott Jones The Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway Railway Magazine 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.