Salvington is a neighbourhood of

Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hov ...

, in the borough of

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...

, England. It lies south of the

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two miles (3 km) north-west of the town centre. It is served by three elected Worthing Borough Councillors at any given time, currently Nicola Waight, Noel Atkins and

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, all

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. Salvington is thought to mean either 'Seawolf's farmstead' (Sǣwulf's farmstead)Glover, Judith (1997), Sussex Place-Names: Their Origins and Meanings Countryside Books or less romantically, Sǣlāf's farmstead (literally the farmstead of someone named 'sea-leavings' or '

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'). Salvington was originally a hamlet within the parish of

West Tarring Tarring, officially West Tarring, is a neighbourhood of Worthing, in the borough of Worthing in West Sussex, England. It lies on the A2031 road north-west of the town centre. It is called "West Tarring", or less commonly "Tarring Peverell", to di ...

. When most of Tarring became part of Worthing in 1902, Salvington joined the parish of Durrington which included nearby

High Salvington High Salvington is a neighbourhood of Worthing, in the borough of Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is centred northwest of the town centre and is north of the A27. History Pre-history At the top of West Hill in High Salvington are remains o ...

. Salvington finally became part of the borough of Worthing in 1929. Salvington is probably best known as the birthplace of the great

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and

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in 1584. The cottage in which he lived was demolished in the 1960s when it fell into disrepair and was replaced with a row of bungalows. However Salvington's main public house, ''Ye John Selden'', retains his name. Salvington is also home to 'Old Sussex House' in Salvington Road. This 16th-century building, originally known as 'Salvington Lets' is a listed building and retains in its attic what is possibly the last

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pen in

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, surrounded by a thin oak trellis hammered together with hand-made nails.

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