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The Goring Gap is a topographical feature on the course of the River Thames. The Gap is located in southern England where the river, flowing from north to south, cuts through and crosses a line of chalk hills in a relatively narrow gap between the Chiltern Hills and the Berkshire Downs .
Goring-by-Sea, commonly referred to simply as Goring, is a neighbourhood of Worthing and former civil parish, now in Worthing district in West Sussex, England. It lies west of West Worthing , about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Worthing town centre.
Worthing is the second most densely populated local authority area in East and West Sussex, with a population density in 2011 of 33.83 people per hectare. [49] Worthing underwent dramatic population growth both in the early 19th century as the hamlet had newly become a town and again in the 1880s.
Worthing is situated on a small ridge next to the English Channel coast. The geology and physical geography of the coastline encourage erosion and longshore drift, which have had major effects on the hinterland. [1] The coastline is almost entirely built up, but there are some gaps such as Goring Gap and the grounds of Beach House. [2]
In the 2011 census the Littlehampton subdivision still includes Angmering but Ferring is part of the Worthing subdivision. There are some small gaps that help maintain distinct identities of places in the conurbation, although in places the settlements coalesce: Goring Gap between Ferring and Goring/Worthing; Sompting Gap between Worthing and ...
Titnore Wood. Titnore wood lies to the north-west of Worthing, a large town on the coast of West Sussex. The wood was formerly part of the Castle Goring estate, a grade I listed country house built at the end of the 18th century for Sir Bysshe Shelley, grandfather of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Ferring Rife is a stream in West Sussex, England that rises in the West Durrington area of Worthing. It has multiple sources including one near Castle Goring and another in Titnore Wood. The streams converge that make up the Ferring Rife converge north of Littlehampton Road, passing through Maybridge, then west of Ferring into the sea. [1]
A map of Worthing from 1946. The 20th century saw a continual expansion of the town, as it expanded to include local villages. In 1902 the borough of Worthing expanded to include parts of Broadwater and West Tarring. In 1929 the borough of Worthing expanded to include Goring and Durrington.