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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… is one of many small hamlets and farms, each with a more or less rectangular area of land, the boundaries of … a cross erected in 1873 but perhaps originally carried up more prominently as a seamark for shipping; the suggestion …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 86 The climate of the town is mild and equable, with more sunshine than elsewhere especially in winter, while the … year it was described as frequented by those who liked a more retired bathing-place than Brighton. 91 By 1796 it had … the resort had begun to be less important to the town as more elderly people came to live there permanently. In 1841 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing comprises five former parishes and parts of two more. The hamlet of Worthing lay in Broadwater parish, which …
A History of the County of Sussex
… weekly allowances, and £1,000 stock for maintenance. Two more houses were built c. 1867 in Portland Road, 29 with … of 15 s. to each inmate. The corporation built 26 more cottages in 1936-7, and all the cottages were let free …
A History of the County of Sussex
… good condition in 1840 66 but by 1850 its tolls had fallen more heavily than those of any other Sussex turnpike; the … Worthing and London was electrified in 1933 94 trains ran more often; six trains an hour from London were advertised in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Late-19th and early-20th-century boundary changes brought more agricultural land into the borough. Ham farm, in … 45 In the 1870s few followed Beer's lead, but later more did so, including some who became well known in local … tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuces, 69 and markets became more local. 70 In the late 1920s many grape-growers changed …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the town, while the area north of Warwick Street became more commercial. Chapel Road was further built up between the … style, but some displayed the red brick and tiles of the more up-to-date revived vernacular style. North of that … beside the Broadwater road had been built by 1875, 4 and more followed in the 1880s and 1890s. 5 The eastern side of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing. In the late 16th century courts were held not more than once a year, and sometimes not for three or four years. Thereafter they were held more intermittently. Up to c. 1750 the court dealt with land … confined to copyholds. From c. 1790 courts were held more often, at least once every two years, and sometimes two …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 21 The Steyne was superseded in its turn by the esplanade, more than half a mile long, which was completed in 1821. 22 … Worthing, pl. 27. Shearsmith, Worthing, 46-9; M. Odell, More About Old Theatre, Worthing (1945), 38-44. Wallis's … W.R.L., sale cats. 1856-79, no. 1. Odell, Old Theatre; More about Old Theatre; Some Playbills of Old Theatre, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… moulded. The Nave (46 ft. by 19 ft.): In the N. wall the more regularly set stones in the W. bay show the change of …