What type of port can be found at Pegwell Bay in Kent and at Ryde on the Isle of Wight?
Pegwell Bay of Hoverlloyd's cross-channel hoverport. Vehicle and passenger carrying hovercraft operated from here from 1969 until 1982. Pegwell Bay Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet in the English Channel coast astride the estuary of the River Stour north of Sandwich bay, between Ramsgate and Sandwich in Kent. Part of the bay is a nature reserve, with seashore habitats including mudflats and salt marsh with migrating waders and wildfowl. The public can access the nature reserve via Pegwell Bay Country Park, which is off the A256 Ramsgate to Dover road. Archaeologists suggest that Pegwell Bay was the site of both the Roman
Isle of Wight Central Railway its presumed competitors. The dominance of the Portsmouth – Ryde ferry route had not yet been established, and in any case Cowes was assumed to be the port of entry for goods and minerals. The Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Act was given the Royal Assent on 31 July 1868, to build a line from Newport to the Sandown station of the Isle of Wight Railway. The competing proposals were rejected; those who favoured a line from Newport to Ryde were disappointed, and continued the struggle. The operation of the Isle of Wight Railway enhanced the importance of Ryde as