Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Worthing within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Worthing.-- watering-place and market town with ry. sta, Broadwater par., Sussex, on English Channel, 10½ miles W. of Brighton and 61½ from London by rail, 979 ac., pop. 10,976; P.O., T.O., and P.O. at Worthing Station, 2 Banks, 3 newspapers. Market-day, Saturday. Worthing dates from the reign of George IV. From a poor fishing village it then rose to a considerable watering-place. Sheltered by the Downs, which rise in the rear of the town, about 1 mile from the sea, its temperature is well adapted to invalids, and it possesses all the requisites of a fashionable sea-side resort, including splendid hotels and lodgings, baths, extensive sands, esplanade, assembly rooms, &c. A large mackerel fishery is carried on.
A village in Brightford hundred, in the county of Sussex.
Three manors recorded in Domesday.
1st Manor
2nd Manor
3rd Manor