HEX 136,57

[sillyflower]

I write on wartime geography of the south coast of England and the hex named 'Worthing'.

Warning: this is the first, and probably only, post I have ever made on the subject of geography which is a subject on which I'm almost uniquely ignorant. From aged 8-13 'geography' was learning the names of the colonies, and from 13 the subject was not taught at all.

It was a surprise to find my home town name named in a game of any sort - it must be a first. My information about the area the came from my parents who lived about 1 mile from Worthing from 1938. The whole coast along there in 1939 was a place where a lot of retired people lived, and it is still known as the Costa Geriatrica. Worthing was a medium sized town but Chichester (a bit inland but in the same hex), was and remains the county capital.

Worthing did not have a port then or now, though a number of the little villages scattered along the coast had tiny ports used by fishing boats, though many were just pulled up on the beaches. Just north of the coastal villages lie the hills of the South Downs and lots of sheep. The nearest big population centre was (and remains) Brighton in the next coastal hex to the east: 137,58. That would be the better place for the 'Worthing' port as there are better small ports there such as Newhaven. I live now in 137,57 and I would still classify it as hills. Much of the area is called 'the Wealden' which means 'hills' though there are also enough woods too to justify the present classification on the map.

To anyone who has managed to reach this point in the post, my congratulations and I hope your life gets more interesting soon

[OxfordGuy3]

I agree! Newhaven would be worthy of being classified as a port, though, and still operates as one now (more so than Brighton).

[sillyflower]

Sorry - I didn't mean imply that Brighton, or even the Brighton/Hove conurbation had a port of its own in the war, nor did I see one in the 6 years I lived there.

[OxfordGuy3]

ORIGINAL: sillyflower

Sorry - I didn't mean imply that Brighton, or even the Brighton/Hove conurbation had a port of its own in the war, nor did I see one in the 6 years I lived there.

It's got a Marina now, but that's just for sail boats. AFAIK Newhaven is the only significant port on that stretch of coast east of Portsmouth/Southampton