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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]
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 ...
Fishing was important to Worthing's economy from the 16th century or earlier, when it was a modest village, until the early 20th century, but the numbers of boats and men employed were small. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Early fishermen supplemented their income by working the land for part of the year as well, and some inhabitants who farmed for most of the ...
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
Beach House, an 1820s house built by John Rebecca and refurbished by Maxwell Ayrton, was saved from demolition in 1978 and is now in residential use. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Worthing, a town with borough status in the English county of West Sussex, has 212 buildings with ...
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 ...
St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in the Goring-by-Sea area of the Borough of Worthing, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex.The late Norman parish church of the ancient village of Goring retains some architectural elements from that period, but Decimus Burton's comprehensive restoration of 1837 has given the church its present Gothic Revival ...
St Andrew the Apostle (in full, the Church of St Andrew the Apostle) is an Anglican church in Worthing, West Sussex, England.Built between 1885 and 1886 in the Early English Gothic style by Sir Arthur Blomfield, "one of the last great Gothic revivalists", [1] the church was embroiled in controversy as soon as it was founded.