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A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing WORTHING The Present article 51 deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of the town as it was enlarged by the successive … Heene, and West Tarring are, however, all dealt with from c. 1900 rather than from the several dates when …
A History of the County of Sussex
… were built in Humphrys Road in that year, 28 endowed with adjoining land, a £78 yearly rent-charge to pay weekly … Two more houses were built c. 1867 in Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's will dated 1860. … at Christmas. The Butler bequest was amalgamated with the alms-house charity by a Scheme of 1972; £4.80 was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… meadow, recorded in 1300 94 and 1493, 95 may be identified with the Town mead, recorded in the 1580s. 96 From the late … increasingly fragmented by the growth of the town which, with erosion to the east, reduced the amount of agricultural … 34 A number of gardens around Worthing supplied the town with fresh fruit and vegetables in 1813, 35 and in 1814 and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… schools in the borough had been reorganized in accordance with the Hadow Report, 99 and the corporation continued as … became a girls' and infants' school in the late 1870s, 34 with an average attendance of 260 in 1893. 35 The infants … 776 in 1914. 93 Reorganized in 1927 as mixed senior school with infants' department. Infants' department closed by 1938. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… held more intermittently. Up to c. 1750 the court dealt with land transactions, the regulation of agriculture, and … last two in 1895, but copyhold business was being dealt with until 1924. Besides the steward a beadle is recorded … there was no local government machinery capable of dealing with the problems arising from the rapid growth of the resort …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Surrey, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Dorking; containing, with the chapelry of Oakwood, 763 inhabitants. This parish, … an extreme view of the Wolds of Surrey and Sussex, with the English Channel in the distance, and northward a fine prospect of Reigate and the valley of the Thames, with the hills of Harrow, Hampstead, and Highgate. The living …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… in the village. The walls are mostly of ragstone-rubble with some flint and ironstone; the chancel contains some … is tiled; those of the rest of the structure are covered with lead. The Nave, with its arcades and with N. and S. aisles, was built c. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… north of Watling Street; the western boundary is mostly with Wroxeter parish and to the east lies the northern part … new town. The main part of the ancient parish, dealt with here, included the townships of Wrockwardine, Admaston, … transfer of Walcot township (414 a.) from Wellington C.P. with 13 a. from Rodington C.P. increased the length of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of muriate of lime, and is also slightly impregnated with iron; the lower spring contains no iron, but a greater … proportion of muriate of soda, and is strongly impregnated with hepatic air. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued … remainder meadow and pasture; the substratum abounds both with coal and ironstone, and some mines are in operation. A …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… began to cover the centre and south part of the township with new streets and works. Much of the north remained … the remainder of the Woodhouse Crescent estate was built, with the neighbouring Gibbons Road estate being added in the … 33 and in 1931 the old-fashioned New Yard works closed with the loss of 1,000 jobs. 34 Apart from Watling Street and …