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Worthing in Sussex County England History and GeographyWORTHING, a sea-port, market-town, and chapelry, in the parish of BROADWATER, hundred of BRIGHTFORD, rape of BRAMBER, county of SUSSEX, 20 miles (E. by S.) from Chichester, and 56 (S. by W.) from London. The population is returned with the parish. This fashionable and attractive watering-place is comparatively of recent growth, having risen, within a few years from a small fishing village to its present size and importance. Its situation forms a strong recommendation to visitors, more especially to invalids, as the South Down hills, which approach to within a mile of the town, completely shelter it from the north and east winds, and protect it from that degree of cold to which the other bathing places on this coast are in the winter subject. There is every facility for bathing, aided by the beautiful and level beach of sand, extending several miles on each side of the town, and sufficiently firm for exercise on horseback and on foot; there are also warm baths fitted up with every convenience. The town is well lighted with oil, paved, and abundantly supplied with water: it contains some good streets, with many excellent houses: the inns and boarding and lodging houses are generally of the best description. The theatre, a small but neat building, is opened in the season; the libraries and reading-rooms are well supplied, and furnish the sources of amusement usually to be found in them at watering-places, and every description of attraction and accommodation has been provided for the many respectable families who resort hither. The principal market is on Saturday, and there is a corn market on alternate Wednesdays, and one for vegetables daily. A fishery, for mackarel in the spring and herrings in the autumn, has been established here, and great quantities of the former are sent to the London market. The chapel is a handsome building with a portico; it was erected in 1812, at an expense of £12,000, raised by the inhabitants, aided by £150 given by the Incorporated Society for enlarging churches and chapels; it will contain one thousand two hundred persons, having one hundred and fifty-four free sittings. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. National schools are supported by subscription, in which about one hundred boys and one hundred girls are instructed; and there is an infant school. A savings bank was established in 1817; and several institutions have been formed for the benefit of the poor, which are supported by voluntary contributions. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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