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During the Second World War, Worthing was home to several allied military divisions in preparation for the D-Day landings. Worthing became the world's 229th Transition Town in October 2009. [22] The project explored the town's transition to life after oil, and was established by local residents as a way of planning the town's Energy Descent ...
Thought to date from the 5th millennium BC and 4th millennium BC, these mines represent some of the oldest mines in Europe, if not the world and predate the great neolithic sites of Stonehenge and Avebury. In the Neolithic period, the South Downs above Worthing was one of Britain's largest and most important flint-mining centres. [3]
Worthing exploits its seaside location for tourism—for which Worthing Pier has always been important—but the sea and coast have also been used for farming, fishing and trade. Worthing , a seaside resort on the English Channel coast of West Sussex , southeast England, has a long maritime history predating its late 18th-century emergence as a ...
Worthing hosts the opening stage of cycling's Milk Race (now the Tour of Britain) Hill Barn Golf Club hosts the Penfold Tournament, part of the European Tour, for the first time; 1970 - Phun City music festival is held in fields outside of Worthing; 1971 - Population: 88,467; 1972 - Worthing hosts its first World Bowls Championship; 1974
Broadwater is a neighbourhood of Worthing, in the borough of Worthing in West Sussex, England. [2] Situated between the South Downs and the English Channel, Broadwater was once a parish in its own right and included Worthing when the latter was a small fishing hamlet.
Goring-by-Sea, commonly referred to simply as Goring, is a neighbourhood of Worthing and former civil parish, now in Worthing district in West Sussex, England. It lies west of West Worthing, about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Worthing town centre. Historically in Sussex, in the rape of Arundel, Goring has been part of the borough of Worthing since ...
The Worthing sailed for the Royal Navy until 23 March 1945. After the World War II, the Worthing resumed civilian service as a Newhaven-Dieppe ferry: first for the Southern Railway until 1948 and then for British Railways until 1954. In 1955 she was sold and moved to Greece, where she was renamed the Phryni. [1]
Durrington is a neighbourhood of Worthing and former civil parish, now in the borough of Worthing in West Sussex, England. Historically in Sussex, in the rape of Bramber, it is situated near the A27 road, 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northwest of the town centre.