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Tarring, West Sussex
West Tarring or simply 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 differentiate it from Tarring Neville near Lewes. History Tarring was given by King Æthelstan of England to the archbishops of Canterbury in the 10th century. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the village was known as ''Terringes'', and consisted of 50 households. It is thought that the place name means "Teorra's people", with Teorra being a Saxon settler.Glover, Judith (1997), Sussex Place-Names: Their Origins and Meanings Countryside Books There is a tradition that the village was visited by Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop, in the 12th century and also by St Richard of Chichester, patron saint of Sussex, in the 13th century. Historically a parish, Tarring included outlying land at Marlpost in Horsham. Two ancient ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worthing (district)
Worthing ( ) is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 113,094 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hove built-up area, the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 15th most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Northern parts of the borough, including the Worthing Downland Estate, form part of the South Downs National Park. In 2019, the Art Deco Worthing Pier was dubbed the best in Britain. Dating from around 4000 BC, the flint mines at Cissbury and nearby Church Hill, West Sussex, Church Hill, Blackpatch and Harrow Hill, West Sussex, Harrow Hill are amongst the earliest Neolithic British Isles, Neolithic monuments in Britain. The Iron Age hill fort of Cissbury Ring is one of Britain's largest. The recorded history of Worthing began with the Domesday Book. Worthing is Historic counties of England, historically part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Andrew's Church, West Tarring
St Andrew's Church is the Church of England parish church of Tarring, West Sussex, England. Founded in the 11th century in a then rural parish which had earlier been granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the church remained a Royal Peculiar, peculier of Canterbury for many centuries thereafter. It served nearby parishes when their churches fell into disrepair, John Selden was baptised here, and the church became a base for smuggling. The present building is mostly 13th-century, and its tall spire is a landmark in the area. The church is a Listed building#Categories of listed building, Grade II* Listed Building. History The parish of West Tarring is now part of the Borough of Worthing, but has ancient origins as a South Downs strip parish of about . It ran for about from its northern extremity at Bost Hill, on the track to Findon, West Sussex, Findon (now the A24 road (England), A24 road), to the English Channel coast in the south, and was much narrower apart from a thin str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goring By Sea
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 west of Worthing town centre. Historically in Sussex, in the rape of Arundel, Goring has been part of the borough of Worthing since 1929. Etymology It is thought that the place-name Goring may mean either 'Gāra's people', or 'people of the wedge-shaped strip of land'.Glover, Judith (1997) ''Sussex Place-Names: Their Origins and Meanings'', Countryside Books Usually known as "Goring", the "by-Sea" suffix has been added to differentiate it from the village of Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. History Around the 6th century Goring became part of the kingdom of Sussex. Like in other villages in the south of Sussex, the people of Goring had land to the north that they used as summer pasture in the Weald, at Goringlee, near Coolham. This route would have been used as a droveways for dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durrington, West Sussex
Durrington is a neighbourhood of Worthing and former civil parish, now in the borough of Worthing (district), Worthing in West Sussex, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in Sussex, in the rape of Bramber, it is situated near the A27 road, northwest of the town centre. Durrington has existed since at least the tenth century and has had a place of worship at the site of St Symphorian's Church, Durrington, St Symphorian's Church for approximately a thousand years. Since 1992 it has been home to the community-led Durrington Festival. History Durrington means 'Dēora's farmstead', Dēora presumably being the name of a Saxon settler.Glover, Judith (1997), Sussex Place-Names: Their Origins and Meanings Countryside Books In common with many neighbouring settlements during the Saxon era, the local people also had land in the Weald, which would have been used for seasonal pasture for animals. Their land was at 'Dēoringa wīc' (modern-day Drungewick, in the parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Vision Of Britain Through Time
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website ''A Vision of Britain through Time''. NB: A "GIS" is a geographic information system, which combines map information with statistical data to produce a visual picture of the iterations or popularity of a particular set of statistics, overlaid on a map of the geographic area of interest. Original GB Historical GIS (1994–99) The first version of the GB Historical GIS was developed at Queen Mary, University of London between 1994 and 1999, although it was originally conceived simply as a mapping extension to the existing Labour Markets Database (LMDB). The system included digital boundaries for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which established elected parish councils to take on the secular functions of the parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population in excess of 100,000. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in continental Europe, such as the communes of France. However, unlike their continental Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Worthing And Shoreham (UK Parliament Constituency)
East Worthing and Shoreham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Tom Rutland of the Labour Party. Boundaries 1997–present: The District of Adur, and the Borough of Worthing wards of Broadwater, Gaisford, Offington, and Selden. The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies left the boundaries unchanged. The constituency covers an eastern portion of Worthing, the town of Shoreham-by-Sea, Lancing and three nearby inland villages in the Adur valley, all communities within the county of West Sussex. History Under the Boundary Commission's fourth review, enacted in time for the 1997 election, the larger Shoreham portion of this constituency was taken from the disbanded Shoreham seat and the minor East Worthing portion had been in the disbanded Worthing seat. Before 1974, the Shoreham seat had been a part of the Arundel and Shoreham seat. Between 1945 and 1950, the whole area was in the Worthing seat and between 1918 and 1945 (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worthing West (UK Parliament Constituency)
Worthing West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Beccy Cooper of the Labour Party. She defeated the long serving incumbent Sir Peter Bottomley, a Conservative who was the Father of the House of Commons from 2019. Boundaries 1997–2024 *Worthing wards of: Castle, Central, Durrington, Goring, Heene, Marine, Northbrook, Salvington, and Tarring. *Arun wards of: East Preston, Ferring, Rustington East and Rustington West. 2024–present Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020): * The District of Arun wards of: Angmering & Findon; East Preston; Ferring. * The Borough of Worthing wards of: Castle; Central; Durrington; Goring; Heene; Marine; Northbrook; Salvington; Tarring. ''The constituency was expanded to include the ward of Angmering & Findon, while losing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarring (electoral Division)
Tarring is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council. Extent The division covers the neighbourhood of West Tarring, which forms part of the urban area of the town of Worthing and came into existence as the result of a boundary review recommended by the Boundary Committee for England, the results of which were accepted by the Electoral Commission An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, a c ... in March 2009. It falls entirely within the un-parished area of Worthing Borough and comprises some or all of the following borough wards: Gaisford Ward (western portion) and Tarring Ward. Election results 2013 Election Results of the election held on 2 May 2013: 2009 Election Results of the elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Sussex County Council
West Sussex County Council is the upper tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of West Sussex in England. The county also contains seven district and borough councils, and 158 town, parish and neighbourhood councils. The county council has 70 elected councillors. The chief executive and directors are responsible for the day-to-day running of the council. Since 1997, West Sussex County Council has been controlled by the Conservative Party. History Sussex was historically divided into six sub-divisions known as rapes. From the 12th century the practice arose of holding the quarter sessions separately for the three eastern rapes and the three western rapes, with the courts for the western rapes of Arundel, Bramber and Chichester being held at Chichester. This position was formalised by the County of Sussex Act 1865, with the eastern and western divisions of Sussex treated as separate counties for the purposes of taxation, law enforcement, asylums and highway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worthing Borough Council
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. It is based at Worthing Town Hall. History Commissioners (1803–1852) Worthing was historically a hamlet in the ancient parish of Broadwater. Until 1803 it was administered by the Broadwater parish vestry, in the same way as most rural areas. Worthing's first form of urban local government was a body of improvement commissioners, established in 1803 with responsibility for street paving and lighting, sewerage and policing. The first chairman of the commissioners was Timothy Shelley. The commissioners' responsibilities were gradually expanded by subsequent Acts of Parliament. The commissioners initially met at hotels in the town until 1835 when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Worthing Railway Station
West Worthing railway station is one of five stations serving the town of Worthing in the county of West Sussex, England. (The other stations being Worthing, East Worthing, Durrington-on-Sea and Goring-by-Sea). It is down the line from Brighton. The station is operated by Southern. History Historically, the station was planned to be the southern terminus of a new line running from the Midlands to the South Coast, and delivering holidaymakers to the new town of West Worthing; it was consequently built near the northern end of Grand Avenue, which runs from the station to the sea. The line was never constructed. The station was built by J.T. Firbank and opened on 4 November 1889. It was expanded by the addition of a large goods yard in 1905 which catered for the produce of the large number of market gardens in the area, but by 1932 part of the yard was given over to the carriage sheds which, until mid-2008, stood to the west of the station. In January 2008 demolition of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
