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The ancient boundary between Heene (later West Worthing) and Broadwater (later Worthing) lies 24 actus west of the Quashetts track. George V Avenue (north–south), the ancient boundary between Tarring (later West Worthing) and Goring lies 72 actus from the Quashetts track. There is evidence of several buildings from the Roman era in Worthing.
Worthing's first coastguard house, a wooden structure on the seafront, was built in about 1809, [1] [37] and a sea mark had helped navigation since its installation in 1795. Another coastguard station was built in the 1820s; [1] a passageway next to it marks the ancient boundary between Worthing and Heene. [35]
Weston Lost place in Beeby, recorded in 1601, gave its name to one of the Beeby great medieval fields which lay west of the boundary with Hungarton [23] Weston SK303027 Deserted Medieval Village in Orton on the Hill, now the location of Moor Barns Farm
Worthing is situated on a mix of two beds of sedimentary rock. The large part of the town, including the town centre, is built upon chalk (part of the Chalk Group), with a bed of London clay found in a band heading west from Lancing through Broadwater and Durrington. [33] Worthing lies roughly midway between the Rivers Arun and Adur.
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 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.
The ancient county boundaries of Warwickshire cover a larger area than the administrative area in 1974 (in green). On 1 April 1965, a number of changes came into effect. The new administrative area of Greater London was created, resulting in the abolition of the administrative counties of London and Middlesex, at the same time taking in areas ...
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 ...