Singleton, Sussex

Historical Description

Singleton, a parish in Sussex, among the South Downs, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 66 miles from London. It includes Charlton hamlet, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chichester. Acreage, 4063; population, 579. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belonged to Earl Godwin, passed to the Earls of Arundel, and belongs now to the Duke of Richmond and Gordon. Molecombe House is the residence of the Earl of March. The parish was, in the 17th century, a noted resort of royalty and nobles for hunting, and contains Goodwood racecourse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £84 with re'sidence. Patron, the Duke of Richmond. and Gordon. The church is Later English, with a Norman tower, and has been well restored.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Singleton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Singleton)

Maps

Online maps of Singleton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer