Coordinates: 50°39′43″N 1°18′47″W / 50.662°N 1.313°W / 50.662; -1.313 The Isle of Wight Rural District was a rural district on the Isle of Wight from 1894 to 1974 covering most the island, part from urban areas. In 1933, the district was reduced by the creation of the Sandown-Shanklin and Ventnor urban districts.
In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was merged with these two urban districts to form the new non-metropolitan South Wight district.
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“She carries in the dishes,
And lays them in a row.
To an isle in the water
With her would I go.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“She that was ever fair, and never proud,
Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud
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She that could think, and ne’er disclose her mind,
See suitors following, and not look behind.
She was a wight, if ever such wight were—
To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.”
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I leave this note without a stamp
To tell you it was just a tramp
Who used your pasture for a camp.”
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