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Worthing is situated on a mix of two beds of sedimentary rock. The large part of the town, including the town centre is built upon chalk (part of the Chalk Group), with a bed of London clay found in a band heading west from Lancing through Broadwater and Durrington. [33] Worthing lies roughly midway between the Rivers Arun and Adur.
In the Neolithic period, the South Downs above Worthing was one of Britain's largest and most important flint-mining centres. [3] These extensive flint mines which include the considerable mines at Cissbury are in many ways comparable to the vast flint mines of Spiennes in Belgium which have been given World Heritage Site status.
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 ...
1856 - Worthing Intelligencer newspaper first published [12] 1861 Queen Marie Amelie of France stays in Worthing when in exile from France; The Sussex Coast Mercury (later the Worthing Mercury) newspaper is first published [12] 1862 Worthing Pier opens; C.A. Elliott uses glass from the Great Exhibition of 1851 for glass-houses to grow grapes ...
Worthing Borough Council is the local authority for Worthing in West Sussex, England. Worthing is a non-metropolitan district with borough status. It forms the lower tier of local government in Worthing, responsible for local services such as housing, planning, leisure and tourism. The council is currently led by the Labour Party.
The town commissioners in Worthing originally met at the Nelson Inn on South Street [2] and later at the Royal Oak Public House in Market Street. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 1820s the commissioners decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected at the north end of South Street was a garden owned by Sir Timothy Shelley , former Whig MP ...
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 ...
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery is in the centre of Worthing near the grade II* listed St Paul's. [2] The building, which celebrated its centenary in 2008, was originally designed to house the town's library as well as the museum, the library section being funded by Andrew Carnegie. It is the largest museum in West Sussex.