It was supplemented by a wall built to the town's west (close to Heene in modern West Worthing) which allowed movement into the town to be restricted to people deemed respectable. Later, in 1832, the leader of Worthing's last smuggling gang was shot dead at point blank range whilst escaping across a narrow footbridge across the Teville stream. In 1820, the sea around the mouth of the Teville stream and Broadwater brook (modern-day Brooklands lake) broke through the beach east of Worthing and briefly re-created the former tidal inlets of the Teville stream and Broadwater brook, almost reaching Broadwater village. For some time, Tarring Road was known as Vapours Lane, supposedly because of the vapours and mists which settled near the stream. The Teville Stream once fed an ornamental lake in Homefield Park. During the Second World War the culverts of the Teville stream were recut to form a more effective barrier against tanks which might travel along the potentially vulnerable gap through the South Downs at Findon Valley. In 1958, land around the lower part of the stream was drained to form a park containing a boating lake, to act as a tidal reservoir for surface water from the Teville stream and Broadwater brook. In the future, it is hoped that new paths can be created that allow part of the Teville stream to be visited. A new link of nature trails have been proposed to run from Brooklands and the present-day mouth of the Teville stream by the sea, right the way up to the Downs. The first stage of this would be a route following the Teville stream from Pages Lane in East Worthing across fields to Brooklands lake. The name Teville is of unknown origin, although according to local historian Robert Elleray, the stream is named after the Tevill or Teevil common which was enclosed by two branches of the stream. Other sources state the Teville Common was named after the stream The Teville Gate shopping centre (waiting to be demolished and the site of a proposed major development) was named after the Teville Gate tollgate for the turnpike road from Worthing northwards across the stream. The stream was once known as the Selbourne or Selborne, as evidenced by two locations on the stream's route - Selbourne Terrace, which stands on Teville Road, and Selborne Road, in which Davison High School lies. It was also known for a while as Town Mead Ditch, after a common known as Town Mead that lay near the Teville common.