Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of West Tarring within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Tarring, West, par., Sussex, on the coast, 1½ mile NW. of Worthing, 1191 ac., pop. 733; P.O.; is famous for its fig orchards; the archbishops of Canterbury long had a palace here; the par. forms the hundred of Tarring.