Web design in Worthing for independents that stand out.

Worthing is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, at the foot of the South Downs, about 11 miles west of Brighton and 18 miles east of Chichester, covering some 12.5 square miles. With a population of around 113,000 it is the second largest part of the Brighton and Hove built-up area and one of the more populous urban areas in the country. The northern edge of the borough, including the Worthing Downland Estate, falls within the South Downs National Park, and its Art Deco pier was voted the best in Britain in 2019.

The area has been settled for a very long time. The flint mines at Cissbury and the nearby hills, dating from around 4000 BC, are among the earliest Neolithic monuments in Britain, with the Cissbury mine alone having around 270 shafts dug using tools of bone and antler. Cissbury Ring, the Iron Age hill fort above the town, is one of the largest in the country, and there is a Bronze Age hill fort at Highdown Hill on the western edge. Worthing itself stayed a small mackerel fishing hamlet for centuries.

That changed in the late 18th century. Wealthy visitors began arriving in the 1750s, Princess Amelia stayed in 1798, and Worthing formally became a town in 1803, growing into an elegant Georgian resort with developments such as Park Crescent and Liverpool Terrace. Through the 19th and 20th centuries the wider area was one of Britain’s chief market gardening centres. Goring, now part of the borough, was only incorporated in 1929 and historically sat in a different old division of Sussex, which is the sort of thing that still shapes how people describe where they are.

Modern Worthing has a large service economy, with a notable financial services sector, three theatres and the Dome, one of the oldest working cinemas in the country. Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter both lived and worked in the town, which tells you something about its pull. For a local business, all of this is genuinely useful rather than trivia. It is the specific, sourced detail that makes a website read as truly from Worthing instead of copy that could describe any resort on the south coast, and Google increasingly favours pages that clearly belong to a place. We write your site to sound like it comes from here, name the right neighbourhoods, and set your Google Business Profile up to match how customers actually search across the town.

Also covering: Sompting, Lancing, Broadwater, Goring, Durrington, Findon and the surrounding villages.