Singleton

"The Domesday Book calls this little Saxon village Silletone; this became Sengleton and then Singleton. Singleton has an unusually large entry with land for eighty ploughs and "150 hogs that come in from the wood" - they were kept in the denes, the natural clearings in the forest.
Singleton must have always been a place of some little local importance, situated as it is on the high road to London."
(Source: exerpts from 'Guide to Churches - Blessed Virgin Mary Singleton; St Andrew West Dean; All Saints East Dean. Purchased from the Church)

My own family has links to Singleton with one of the sons of George H. WILD being born there in 1887, as the other children were born in East Dean I have not discovered why they were in Singleton for his borth - visiting family perhaps? The village is however, very close and as a larger village may have been a source for many goods for the people of tiny East Dean.

Singleton Church

This is the central church of the Hundred of Singleton, owned by the great Earl Godwin, father of Kind Harold hwo died at the battle of Hastings in 1066. It housed in its tower and conjectured long room over the nave priests who served the other churches in the hundred. The present church is substantially the same, at least in its outline and foundations as it was in Saxon days, except that the aisles were added later.
(Source: exerpts from 'Guide to Churches - Blessed Virgin Mary Singleton; St Andrew West Dean; All Saints East Dean. Purchased from the Church)

Singleton Church

Singleton Church

Singleton Church

Singleton Church

 

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