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The Sussex Yeomanry is a yeomanry regiment of ... 1794 that the counties should form a force of Volunteer Yeoman ... detachments at Horsham, Worthing, Haywards ...
Stanley Gill, computer scientist, was born in Worthing in 1926 and is co-credited with the invention of the first computer subroutine; Patrick Gordon Walker, Labour Member of Parliament for Smethwick, was born in Worthing in 1907. Francis Gresson, cricketer who played for Oxford University and Sussex, was born in Worthing in 1868.
The county of Sussex was divided into administrative divisions known as 'rapes'. The manor of Worthing, in common with most of the modern borough of Worthing, was part of the rape of Bramber. In the 13th century, the manor of Worthing was owned by Margaret de Gaddesden, a descendant of Robert le Sauvage.
Worthing (/ ˈ w ɜːr ð ɪ ŋ / WUR-dhing) is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, 11 miles (18 km) west of Brighton, and 18 miles (29 km) east of Chichester.
One of a few old cottages to survive in Old Shoreham as urbanisation increased, this has 16th-century origins as a small yeoman farmhouse and has been tree-ring dated to construction in 1583 with two floors and a central brick chimney. It was divided into two in the 18th century.
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. Historically in Sussex, in the rape of Arundel, Goring has been part of the borough of Worthing since ...
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]
Worthing's location within West Sussex. The borough covers 8,030 acres (3,250 ha) [8] of the English Channel coast and its hinterland in West Sussex, a county in southeast England. It is bordered to the west and north by the district of Arun, to the east by the district of Adur, and to the south by the English Channel. [9]