WORTHING Rural District Council

PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

RD/WO/1. Minutes of Council Meetings, 1933-1974

RD/WO/3. Minutes of Committee Meetings, see note in catalogue

RD/WO/7. Registers of documents sealed, 1939-1952

RD/WO/8. Byelaws and Sealed Orders, 1936, 1953-1966

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT

RD/WO/14. Records of licences and statutory notices issued, 1902-1950

RD/WO/16. Plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1933-1949

RD/WO/18. Registers of plans deposited for byelaws approval, 1933-1948

RD/WO/21. Correspondence, 1933-1950

RD/WO/24. Miscellaneous, see note in catalogue

FINANCE

RD/WO/30. General and Housing Ledgers, 1935-1974

RD/WO/31. Estimate, Abstract, Financial Statements, 1933-1934

RD/WO/34. Valuation Lists, 1934-1973

RD/WO/35. Rate Books, 1939-1961

RD/WO/37. Rating miscellaneous, 1962-1974

RD/WO/40. Housing miscellaneous, 1952-1974

RD/WO/44. Loans Ledgers, 1942-1963

RD/WO/45. Advances to the public, 1956-1965

RD/WO/46. Loans miscellaneous, 1957-1974

RD/WO/50. Other miscellaneous accounts, 1971-1974

RD/WO/53. Working plans, 1937

RD/WO/55. Reports to the Council, 1934. See note in catalogue

RD/WO/56. Miscellaneous, 1938-1952

MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH

RD/WO/57. Annual Reports, 1951-1969. See note in catalogue

RD/WO/59. Miscellaneous, 1944

PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR

RD/WO/59A Reports to the Council, 1934. See note in catalogue

RD/WO/60. Journals and Diaries, 1935-1974

RD/WO/63. Miscellaneous, 1935-1955

PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTED MATTER

RD/WO/65. Photographs, 1940-1974

Deposited by Worthing R.D.C., or its successor, Arun D.C., in 1974 - 1978. RD/WO/60/2 came from Arundel Town Council in 1980. RD/WO/8/6 was deposited by the County Secretary.

Council minutes RD/WO/1/19-32, and Committee Minutes RD/WO/3/1/1-4, 3/2/1, 3/3/1 were deposited by Arun D.C. in June 1990.

Copy Minutes RD/WO/1 - 8 were deposited by Adur D.C. in March 1977.

Worthing R.D.C. was formed under the West Sussex Review Order of 1933 and came into existence on 1 April of that year. It was composed of the greater part of the former East Preston R.D.C., together with three parishes from the former Steyning West R.D.C., Lancing, Sompting and Coombes, and (from the former Thakeham R.D.C.) the greater part of Findon parish.

For a plan see PM 276.

The parishes of the Rural District were as follows:

Angmering, Burpham, Clapham, Ferring, Findon, Houghton, Kingston, Lancing [consisting of the former Lancing and Coombes parishes], Lyminster, Patching, Poling, East Preston, Rustington [less a portion transferred to Littlehampton U.D.], Sompting [less a portion transferred to Worthing Borough], South Stoke, and Warningcamp.

For full details see Boundary Changes in West Sussex (W.S.R.O. MP 1348).

There do not appear to have been any major boundary revisions between 1933 and 1974. By a W.S.C.C. Order of 1939 the Urban Districts of Shoreham and Southwick, together with the parish of Lancing and part of the parish of Sompting were formed into a new Urban District of Kingston Buci, but the Second World War prevented this Order from coming into effect.