After leaving school he joined the engineering staff at Great Western Railway at Paddington.
[2] He joined the Plymouth Institution in 1888[2] and he shortly afterwards presented his first paper to them on Early Western Railways.
In 1879 Worth's father had been involved in forming the Barrow Committee of the Devonshire Association which published annual reports.
[2] In 1930 Worth became President of the Devonshire Association and in that year he submitted a major paper on The Physical Geography of Dartmoor.
[2][12] In the obituary published by the Devonshire Association in 1951 it was estimated that during his time writing for them he had written on more than forty subjects.
He died before being able to complete this task but he left a sum of money[1] and instructions in his will for the publication of such a book with the proceeds of the sales to go to the Devonshire Association.
It was to confer recognition of achievements in outreach, public engagement and/or education carried out by an individual or an institution.