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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 there were 199 households containing 476 people, of whom 199 were economically active. ==The parish church== The Anglican parish church has Anglo-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.〔('Singleton', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4: The Rape of Chichester (1953), pp. 118-121. )〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Singleton, West Sussex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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