WORTHING

Friends of Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery

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Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery, South Farm Road, Worthing, Sussex

The cemetery, which is the last resting place of 24,888 Worthing residents, was opened in May 1863. Buried here are the first Mayors of Worthing and a plethora of civic dignitaries, military men, successful business people and the ordinary people who made up the population of Worthing. It has 82 Commonwealth War Graves, predominately from the First World War, but does include civilians killed by enemy action in the Second World War.

Also interred in this cemetery are the victims of the great typhoid outbreak that struck Worthing in 1893 and claimed up to 200 lives.

A few interesting graves located in the cemetery include the naturalists William Henry Hudson and Richard Jeffries and Mary Hughes, the heroine of the classic nursery rhyme ‘Mary had a little lamb’.

Illustrated is the tomb of the Corbett family recording the death of three family members who all died abroad but were buried in this impressive monument; as yet no other links with Worthing have been found.

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