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A duver (pronounced to rhyme with ''Cover''; occasionally spelt as dover) is an
Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight (Help:IPA/English, /waɪt/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''WYTE'') is an island off the south coast of England which, together with its surrounding uninhabited islets and Skerry, skerries, is also a ceremonial county. T ...
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term for a low-lying piece of land along the coast, subject to occasional inundation by the sea. The name has become part of place names on the Isle of Wight, for example Dover Street in Ryde is the street which used to run down to the duver. The word survives in the names of coastal areas a
St Helens DuverSeaview Duver
and Hamstead Dover. There are relatively few dunes on the Isle of Wight, 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.


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{{Reflist Landforms of the Isle of Wight Dunes of England