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A History of the County of Sussex
… 1890 to 1974, the second largest town in Sussex, and one of the principal seaside resorts in England and Wales, lies … on the south coast roughly mid-way between the estuaries of the rivers Arun and Adur. The town is known nationally for its large number of elderly residents, and as the centre of what was formerly …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1410 was being used for mass. 74 Two chaplains, possibly of Worthing chapel, occurred in the early 15th century. 75 … by the rector of Broadwater to the Patronage Trust of the National Protestant Church Union, 31 later merged in the Church Society, which held it …
A History of the County of Sussex
… List of maps and plans Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. Before 1066 the part of Worthing called Ordinges was held by 7 alodial tenants. In … was cultivated by 2 teams, and there was 1 servus and 7 a. of meadow. Six villani and 9 bordars had another team. At the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… four day schools and three boarding schools for a total of 161 boys and 71 girls who were taught at their parents' … there were 160 boys in the school, 4 which had become a National school by c. 1823. 5 Net-making was taught in 1824 … 472 in 1976. Worthing technical high school: opened in Union Place as Worthing junior technical school for building …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Growth of the town Growth of the town. In the 18th century, and … built c. 1815, 75 while on the other side of Chapel Road Union Place was laid out by 1826 to link the chapel to High … of two or three storeys, may be lodging-houses or working-class dwellings. They are usually stuccoed, but …
A History of the County of Sussex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES Manor Court books of Worthing manor's court baron survive from 1544 to 1925. 91 … parishes in 1925. 28 The town was connected to the national grid in 1930, 29 and by 1939 there were c. 23,000 … to High Street in 1922. A new police station was built in Union Place near by in 1939. 36 A fire-engine was given to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… List of maps and plans Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WORTHING comprised two estates which belonged to William … has been traced. A house east of High Street opposite Union Place was called the Manor House c. 1848 65 and later. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, after an unsuccessful attempt to … in Portland Road. 54 It continued in 1976. The Old Baptist Union Providence chapel in Marine Place was registered for … Assocs. 135; G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 49713; Baptist Union Dir. (1976-7). Kelly's Dir. Suss. (1891, 1895); Kelly's …
A History of the County of Sussex
… available to visitors to Worthing during the first half of the 19th century were those characteristic of resorts at … the Connaught Hall, on the corner of Chapel Road and Union Place. In 1935 it was transferred to a converted cinema … besides managing Cissbury Ring after its purchase by the National Trust in 1925. 33 After the Second World War it …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Wrayton Wothersome WOTHERSOME, a township, in the parish of Bardsey, Lower division of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. … WOTTON ( St. John the Evangelist), a parish, in the union of Dorking, First division of the hundred of Wotton, W. … in the parish and hundred of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, union of Bridport, Bridport division of Dorset, 4 miles (N. …