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Photochrom print of Worthing Pier in the 1890s. Worthing is a large seaside town in Sussex, England in the United Kingdom. The history of the area begins in Prehistoric times and the present importance of the town dates from the 19th century.
The Sussex Coast Mercury (later the Worthing Mercury) newspaper is first published [12] 1862 Worthing Pier opens; C.A. Elliott uses glass from the Great Exhibition of 1851 for glass-houses to grow grapes for sale [10] 1863 - Worthing Express newspaper, a local version of the Sussex Express is first published [12]
The history of film in Worthing dates back to exhibitions on Worthing Pier in 1896, and two years later William Kennedy Dickson—inventor of the Kinetoscope, a pioneering motion picture device—visited the town to film daily life. In the early 20th century, several cinemas were established, although most were short-lived.
Worthing exploits its seaside location for tourism—for which Worthing Pier has always been important—but the sea and coast have also been used for farming, fishing and trade. Worthing , a seaside resort on the English Channel coast of West Sussex , southeast England, has a long maritime history predating its late 18th-century emergence as a ...
High Street, Worthing is a road in the centre of the town of Worthing, West Sussex, running from Little High Street to The Steyne. It is designated as part of the A259 , a major road between Emsworth in Hampshire and Folkestone in Kent.
The parish of West Tarring is now part of the Borough of Worthing, but has ancient origins as a South Downs strip parish of about 1,200 acres (486 ha). [2] It ran for about 3 miles (5 km) from its northern extremity at Bost Hill, on the track to Findon (now the A24 road), to the English Channel coast in the south, and was much narrower apart from a thin strip of land extending westwards.
Worthing Pier is a public pleasure pier in Worthing, West Sussex, England. Designed by Sir Robert Rawlinson , it was opened on 12 April 1862 and remains open to the public. The pier originally was a simple promenade deck 960 ft (290 m) long and 15 ft (4.6 m) wide.
West Worthing is a neighbourhood of Worthing in West Sussex, England that was developed within Heene and later expanded beyond Heene's boundaries.Intended as an exclusive resort, the township of West Worthing was developed from around 1864 and merged with the formerly separate township of Worthing in 1890, when Worthing gained borough status.