Broadwater is a neighbourhood of

Worthing 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 Br ...

, in the borough of

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, England. Situated between the

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and the

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, Broadwater was once a parish in its own right and included

when the latter was a small fishing

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. Before its incorporation into the Borough of Worthing in 1902 Broadwater also included the manor of

Offington Offington is a neighbourhood of Worthing, and a Ward (electoral subdivision), ward in the borough of Worthing (district), Worthing in West Sussex, England. It lies on the A2031 road 1.6 miles (2.5 km) northwest of the town centre. Today, th ...

to the north. It borders Tarring to the west, Sompting to the east, and East Worthing to the south-east.

History

In 1931, the

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, w ...

had a population of 1187. On 9 November 1902, the parish was abolished and merged with Worthing, Durrington and Sompting. St Mary's Church is in Broadwater.

Education

There are nine schools in Broadwater: Broadwater C of E Primary School, Downsbrook Primary School, Springfield Infant School, Whytemead Primary School, Bramber Primary School, the private Lancing College Prep School Worthing (formerly Broadwater Manor School), St Andrew's High School, Worthing High, Davison High School and Bohunt School Worthing.

Notable people

* Walter Dew (1863–1947), police officer''The Annotated I Caught Crippen: Memoirs of Ex-Chief Inspector Walter Dew, CID of Scotland Yard'', ed. with an introduction by Nicholas Connell (Mango Books, 2018), n. 108. *

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(1841–1922), author, naturalist and ornithologist *

Richard Jefferies John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influ ...

(1848–1877), nature writer * Ann Thwaytes (1789–1866), philanthropist

References

{{Authority control Suburbs of Worthing Former civil parishes in West Sussex