Place:


Broadwater  Sussex

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Broadwater like this:

BROADWATER, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in worthing district, Sussex. The village stands near the South Coast railway, 1 mile N of Worthing; and has a post office under Worthing. It was formerly a market-town, under the Camois family, who had a castle adjacent to it; and it still has fairs on 22 June and 29 Oct. ...


The parish includes also the township and town of Worthing. Acres, 2,560; of which 320 are water. Real property, £34,453. Pop., 6,466. Houses, 1,188. The property is much subdivided. Offington, anciently the seat of the Lords Delawarr, now that of J. F. Danbury, Esq., is about ½ a mile W of the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £600.* Patron, the Rev. E. K. Elliott. The church is cruciform, and was restored in 1854. The vicarage of Christchurch and the p. curacies of Worthing and St. George are separate benefices. Charities, £25.-The subdistrict contains five parishes. Pop., 8,387.

Broadwater through time

Broadwater is now part of Worthing district. Click here for graphs and data of how Worthing has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Broadwater itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Broadwater, in Worthing and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20200

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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