Coordinates: 50°54′38″N 0°45′11″W / 50.91066°N 0.75313°W / 50.91066; -0.75313

Singleton
Singleton  Singleton shown within West Sussex
Area	16.02 km2 (6.19 sq mi) [1]
Population	476 [1] 2001 Census
- Density	30 /km2 (78 /sq mi)
OS grid reference	SU877130
- London	49 miles (79 km) NE
Parish	Singleton
District	Chichester
Shire county	West Sussex
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHICHESTER
Postcode district	PO18
Dialling code	01243
Police	Sussex
Fire	West Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Chichester
List of places: UK • England • West Sussex

Singleton is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies in the Lavant valley, north of Chichester on the A286 road to Midhurst.

The village name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'sengel', which means "burnt clearing".

The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum of Historic Buildings is situated on the edge of the village. Over 40 historic buildings from south-east England have been rescued from destruction, dismantled and reconstructed on the site.

A railway served the village at Singleton station between 1880 and 1953. The station complex is now in use as a private dwelling place.

The parish has a land area of 1601.8 hectares (3956 acres). In the 2001 census 476 people lived in 199 households, of whom 199 were economically active.

[edit] The parish church

Church of the blessed Virgin Mary.

The Anglican parish church has Saxon nave walls and massive square tower. The aisles were added later. This was a hundredal church, the central church of the Hundred of Singleton, a Saxon administrative grouping of parishes. The tower has three Saxon windows and a Saxon doorway leading into thin air high up in the nave, showing that there was once an upper room above the nave.^[2] It is likely that the priests for the churches in the hundred would have lived in this room. The Saxon tower arch was rebuilt in the twelfth or thirteenth century with a pointed arch. The pews are from the Tudor period.

[edit] Landmarks

Goodwood Country Park lies in the south of the parish, part of the Goodwood House estate.

There is an oil well in Singleton forest in the north of the parish.^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Weald and Downland Museum