Broadwater, Sussex

Historical Description

Broadwater, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 1½ mile N of Worthing station on the L.B. & S.O.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Worthing. It was formerly a market town under the Camois family, who had a castle adjacent to it. The parish includes also the township and town of Worthing. Acreage, 2730 of land and 379 of foreshore and water; population of the civil parish, 15,931; of the ecclesiastical, 3631. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £427 with residence. The church is. cruciform, and was restored in 1826, and again in 1864. The vicarages of Christ Church, Holy Trinity, and St George in Worthing are separate benefices. There is a reading-room.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Broadwater from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Broadwater (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Broadwater are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer