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Singleton, West Sussex

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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. It is likely that the priests for the
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sits) via the preinstalled conductor and the 9 5/8-inch casing, both of which appear not to have been adequately cemented in-situ in at least one well. A thorough investigation commenced in 1997, including the drilling of a number (>11) of additional boreholes, and the carrying out of
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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. Since 2017 it has been the location of the BBC television series
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The civil parish has a land area of 1,602 hectares (3,960 acres). In the 2001 census there were 199 households containing 476 people, of whom 199 were economically active. The population marginally increased to 480 at the 2011 Census.
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and Preston. In Singleton parish itself there were 167 households: 89 villagers, 58 smallholders and 20 slaves; with ploughing land, woodland, meadows, three mills and a church, it had a value to the lords of the manor of £121.
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but operated by a different company when the incidents occurred). These occurred in the early 1990s, and were caused by failure of cement behind the conductor and the 9 5/8-inch casing. This was identified as a result of five
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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
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monitoring boreholes installed at the Singleton Oil Field in 1993. The leak was from the well cellar (cement-lined cavity in which the
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There is an oil well in Singleton forest in the north of the parish. This is one of 84 wells on
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The village name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'sengel', which means "burnt clearing".
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nave walls and massive square tower. The aisles were added later. This was a
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of the same name with 237 households including the settlements of
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examination under the auspices of, and in consultation with, the
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In 1861, the population of the Anglican parish (Singleton with
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incidents at the Singleton Oil Field (now operated by
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Between 1880 and 1953 a railway served the village at
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Further historical information and sources on GENUKI
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Singleton is located in West Sussex
West Sussex
2011 Census
Density
OS grid reference
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London
NE
Civil parish
District
Chichester
Shire county
West Sussex
Region
South East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
PO18
Dialling code
Police
Sussex
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West Sussex
Ambulance
South East Coast
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