Worth, Sussex

Historical Description

Worth, a parish in Sussex, 1 mile from Three Bridges station on the L.B. & S.C.R.,and 6½ miles W by S of East Grinstead. It includes Crawley Down,Tilgate Forest, Old House Warren, Pound Hill, Rickmans Green, Wakemans Green, Copthorne, and Turner's Hill; contains the railway stations of Three Bridges, Rowfant, and Grange Road; and has post offices of Crawley Down and Pound Hill under Crawley. Acreage, 13,331; population of the civil parish, 4047; of the ecclesiastical, 1813. There is a parish council consisting of fifteen members. Worth Park, Tilgate House, Crabbett Park, Paddockhurst, and the Grove are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £700 with residence. The church is an ancient cruciform building of stone in the Saxon style. There are two places of worship for the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, and a mission hall.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Worth from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Worth 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