Duver

Abandoned boat at St Helen's Duver, Isle of Wight

A duver (pronounced to rhyme with cover; occasionally spelt as dover) is an Isle of Wight dialect term for an area of sand dunes.

The word survives in the names of coastal areas at St Helens Duver and Seaview Duver. The word has also become part of place names on the Isle of Wight; for example Dover Road in East Cowes, and Dover Street in Ryde are both streets which used to run down to a duver.

There are relatively few dunes on the Isle of Wight,[1] and some have been reclaimed or otherwise lost, meaning that some places which bear the name duver are no longer sand dunes. The largest surviving example is St Helens Duver.[2]

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