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worthing
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of worth English)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 213
Land area (2000): 0.458199 sq. miles (1.186731 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.458199 sq. miles (1.186731 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72820
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.328868 N, 96.766593 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57077
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Worthing
Wikipedia
Worthing is a large seaside town in England, with borough status in West Sussex, in the historic county of Sussex. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. With an estimated population of 104,600 and an area of the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation, which makes it part of the 15th most populous urban area in the United Kingdom.
The area around Worthing has been populated for at least 6,000 years and contains Britain's greatest concentration of Stone Age flint mines, which are some of the earliest mines in Europe. Lying within the borough, the Iron Age hill fort of Cissbury Ring is one of Britain's largest. Worthing means "(place of) Worth/Worō's people", from the Old English personal name Worth/Worō (the name means "valiant one, one who is noble"), and -ingas "people of" (reduced to -ing in the modern name). For many centuries Worthing was a small mackerel fishing hamlet until in the late 18th century it developed into an elegant Georgian seaside resort and attracted the well-known and wealthy of the day. In the 19th and 20th centuries the area was one of Britain's chief market gardening centres.
Modern Worthing has a large service industry, particularly in financial services. It has three theatres and one of Britain's oldest cinemas. Writers Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter lived and worked in the town.
Worthing was a parliamentary constituency in West Sussex, centred on the town of Worthing in West Sussex. It returned one Member of Parliament(MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Usage examples of "worthing".
Fairfords were not going to Brighton, but to Worthing instead, a resort much patronized by persons to whom the racket of Brighton was distasteful.
Peregrine had driven out to Worthing earlier in the day, and was not yet back, but both the ladies were at home, and while Mrs.
I can only trust that it may have befallen Tyler, whose task was undoubtedly to have overpowered Peregrine at a convenient moment during his drive to Worthing, and to have handed him over to the captain of that vessel.
Peregrine, who had driven back from Worthing so early on purpose to wish his sister many happy returns of her birthday.
Earl of Worthing and his wife expect a crowd for their first Christmas ball in Kent.
But she suspected that Lady Worthing would prefer to show the house to her herself.
Three men crowded about the substantial fireplace, discussing the advantages of their weapons, while Lady Worthing and another woman chatted in a corner, and the servants bustled about laying a feast of scotch broth, game pies, venison stew, and crusty bread.
Lady Worthing said warmly, her gaze flitting from Felicity to Lord St.
Ian strode toward the Worthing dining room the morning after the ball.
And why else accompany the Blackmores to dinner at Worthing Manor tonight?