In the doomsday book of 1086 Durrington is listed as two separate manors but it was extended to include the northern halves of Tarring and Broadwater parishes in 1902 when the rest of those parishes became part of Worthing borough. In this area there were lavender fields right up to the Arundel Road. Imagine the aromatic splendour from such a vast array of scented purple flowers in late summer.
In the 1920's the area was also home to Percy Lovell's Manor Nursery which had the Largest Greenhouses in Europe
Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of (A) known species of flowering plants in the (B) family, Lamiaceae
It is native to what is known as the Old World and is found from Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Europe across to Northern and Eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, Southwest Asia to Southeast India
Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, they can also be used as culinary herbs, plus also commercially for the extraction of (C)
The most widely cultivated species, Lavandula angustifolia, is often referred to as Lavender, and there is a colour named for the shade of the flowers of this species
A = number
B = alphabet position of third letter in word
C = number of letters in the word
N 50° 50.(A x 5 + 2 - B)
W 000° 24.(C + 1) (A - 1)