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A History of the County of Sussex
… and as the centre of what was formerly one of the chief market-gardening districts in the country. The modern … Worthing in 1933. O.S. Area Bk. (1876). Worthing Town and Market Act, 43 Geo. III, c. 59 (Local and Personal). MPL 21 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the identification with Vicarage Garden, north of North Street, is doubtful. 79 After at least two unsuccessful … two Sunday services in 1884. 54 A mission room in Anglesea Street licensed for worship in that year 55 was recorded …
A History of the County of Sussex
… leading north from the north end of the modern High Street. The line of the latter was still followed by roads … through Sompting. A road following the line of Montague Street led towards Heene, and another following that of … by 1851. 85 The coaching centre of Worthing was South Street; 86 the adjacent area served a similar rôle in 1978 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and c. 550 pigs and c. 2,250 poultry were also kept. 32 Market-gardening. 33 Worthing's climate and fertile brickearth soil helped the development of the market-garden and glass-house industry there. 34 A number of … and Steyning, 13 later Henty's bank was founded in Warwick Street in 1808. It was amalgamated with the Capital and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was established in 1812 in the former barracks in the High Street. It was financed by subscriptions, and strongly … school by c. 1823. 17 It stood at the corner of North Street and Chapel Road in 1824 when needlework and … 21 The school appears to have occupied the Chapel Street infants' school for a short time 22 before being …
A History of the County of Sussex
… evidence for a settlement at the south end of High Street between the 13th and 16th centuries. 35 One building … at least one terrace facing the sea near by. 50 Ann and Market streets, north of Warwick Street, were recorded … the Heene boundary, being abruptly halted there by the market-garden land which lay beyond. 96 During the next …
A History of the County of Sussex
… when the commissioners were also empowered to set up a market, and to borrow up to another £4,000 on the security of … difficulties, which were increased by the decline in market tolls not long after they were granted. 19 Despite the … town commissioners first met at the Nelson inn in South Street, and after 1812 at the Royal George in Market Street. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 64 No manor-house has been traced. A house east of High Street opposite Union Place was called the Manor House c. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 84 The Independent, later Congregational, chapel in Chapel Street, later Portland Road, was built in 1804. 85 It had … 1976, and demolished in 1978. The Tabernacle in Montague Street was opened in the late 1830s 92 as an 'Independent … was registered in 1912, 8 and the St. James's Hall in High Street was registered as an evangelical free church in 1926. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Dame de Sion established a temporary convent in North Street whose chapel became the main place of Roman Catholic …