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Great and Little Singleton, Lancashire

Historical Description

Singleton, Great and Little, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Kirkham parish, Lancashire, on the river Wyre, 2½ miles SE of Poulton, with a station on the Preston and Wyre Joint railway. There is a post office, of the name of Great Singleton, under Preston; money order and telegraph office, Poulton-le-Fylde. The township includes part of Shippool Bridge. Acreage, 2700 of land and 223 of water; population, 380; of the ecclesiastical parish, 495. Singleton Park is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £250 with residence. The church was built in 1861, is in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, and a tower with lofty spire. There is a volunteer fire brigade with a station.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: