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A History of the County of Sussex
… by a road following the line of the modern road, and by a footpath leading north from the north end of the … Street. The line of the latter was still followed by roads and a footpath in 1978. The Worthing-Broadwater road led to London via Findon and Steyning, and another road to Steyning lay through …
A History of the County of Sussex
… List of maps and plans Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. … the town's main industry in 1946, 82 but despite the corporation's wish to retain it in the town much land was … in Worthing until after the Second World War, when the corporation recognized that further, less seasonal, sources …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in Worthing were apparently for visitors' children, and by 1811 there were one academy and two seminaries. 93 … replaced as the authority for elementary education by the corporation in 1903. 98 By 1938 schools in the borough had … in accordance with the Hadow Report, 99 and the corporation continued as elementary education authority from …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the town Growth of the town. In the 18th century, and probably earlier, the hamlet of Worthing comprised the … 10,000 between 1931 and 1951, to a total of 21,648. 20 The corporation exercised its powers to control development under the Town Planning Acts of 1919, 1925, and 1932, establishing density …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Local government and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES … 49 and further building by-laws were adopted in 1869. 50 Corporation In 1890 Worthing and Heene were incorporated by … 102-7; M.H. 13/213, partics. of money borrowed under local Acts of 1803 and 1821, 9 Dec. [1858.] Snewin & Smail, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… p. 34, H.C. (1944-5), iv. The Times, Ho. of Commons (1950 and later edns.). …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had two houses registered for worship in Worthing in 1800 and 1803. 84 The Independent, later Congregational, chapel in … Portland Road, was built in 1804. 85 It had been repaired and improved by 1817, 86 there was a Sunday school of 80 children c. 1826, 87 and the chapel was enlarged and refronted in the 1840s. 88 In …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Social and cultural activites Social and cultural activities. The … in the following year. 77 In 1920 it was bought by the corporation, 78 and a concert pavilion, the Pier Pavilion, … as a commercial enterprise in 1966, and was bought by the corporation and reopened in 1967. It continued in 1977, under …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… gives name to the hundred, is about nine miles in length and one mile in average breadth; it includes Leith Hill, and comprises 4176 acres, of which 563 are common or waste. … Hall, Cambridge. The tithes were commuted for land under acts of inclosure of the 39th and 40th of George III.; the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (late). Writing box [wrytinge box; writing desks and box; wrighting box] A small BOX for containing WRITING PAPER and other writing requisites such as PENs. Such boxes barely … the sizes of writing paper were set out in new schedules [Acts (1784)]. The following sizes and types were available …