Singleton, Lancashire

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Village in Lancashire, England

title: "Singleton, Lancashire" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["singleton,-lancashire", "villages-in-lancashire", "civil-parishes-in-lancashire", "geography-of-the-borough-of-fylde"] description: "Village in Lancashire, England" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton,_Lancashire" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Lancashire, England ::

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FieldValue
static_image_nameOld Gatehouse onto Singleton Park - geograph.org.uk - 483903.jpg
static_image_captionSingleton Park Gatehouse
coordinates
official_nameSingleton
map_typeLancashire
os_grid_referenceSD380382
population889
population_ref(2011 Census)
civil_parishSingleton
shire_districtFylde
shire_countyLancashire
regionNorth West England
countryEngland
post_townPOULTON-LE-FYLDE
postcode_areaFY
postcode_districtFY6
dial_code01253
constituency_westminsterFylde
pushpin_mapUnited Kingdom Borough of Fylde#United Kingdom The Fylde
pushpin_map_captionShown within Fylde Borough##Shown within the Fylde
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Singleton is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England. It is situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde. It is located south-east of Poulton-le-Fylde, and at the 2001 census had a population of 877, The parish is sometimes referred to as two parts: Great Singleton, the larger part containing the village, and Little Singleton, a small area north of the village bordering the River Wyre.

History

At the time of the Roman conquest of Britain in the 1st century AD, the area around Singleton was inhabited by a Celtic tribe called the Setantii.

Singleton railway station once served the village as part of the Preston and Wyre Joint Railway. The station was situated west of the village, on the road to Blackpool.

Singleton Hall is a Gothic-styled mansion on Lodge Lane, built in 1855 by Thomas Miller Jr (1811–1865), son of a prominent Preston industrialist Thomas Miller Sr. The Hall was later used by Lancashire County Council as a special school for senior boys with disabilities, known as the Singleton Hall Residential Special School for Physically Handicapped Boys (Senior). The hall was largely untouched until 2004–2005, when it was extended and converted into private residences by Crosby Homes. Public pathways outside the hall have been developed and maintained by the Richard Dumbreck Singleton Trust, endowed by Richard Dumbreck, a great-nephew of Thomas Horrocks Miller. Pevsner's The Buildings of England describes the hall as "large and unlovely, in brick and stone trim with an entrance tower and a taller stair-tower. The style is domestic Gothic," and says that "1871–73 is supposed to be the date, but this may refer to extensions." He mentions "unremarkable lodges and various estate buildings," and notes that the hall, and these further buildings, have been converted to flats.

The Miller family also commissioned Singleton's parish church, St Anne's, designed by Lancaster architect Edward Graham Paley and completed in 1861. It has been designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage.

The village has one public house, the Miller Arms, which is located in a building dating from the 17th century.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Miller_Arms,_Singleton.jpg" caption="The Miller Arms [[pub]] in Singleton."] ::

Fracking

In 2011, drilling equipment was installed at Grange Hill, east of the village, to test for shale gas in the Bowland Shale Formation around 1.2 mi below the surface. In 2013, Cuadrilla and Centrica made plans for hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, at the site.

Governance

Singleton is combined with Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton to form the ward of Singleton and Greenhalgh, which elects one councillor. , it is represented by Maxine Chew, an independent councillor. Singleton also has a parish council.

The village is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of Fylde. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Notable people

References

Footnotes

Sources

  • {{Citation | editor1-last = Farrer | editor1-first = William | editor2-last = Brownbill | editor2-first = J. | title = Townships — Singleton | work = A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7 | publisher = Constable | year = 1912 | url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53217 | oclc = 59626695 | ref = FarrerTownship
  • {{Citation | last1 = Hartwell | first1 = Clare | last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link = Nikolaus Pevsner | title = Lancashire: North | publisher = Yale University Press | location = New Haven and London | year = 2009 | orig-year = 1969 | isbn = 978-0-300-12667-9 | ref = Hartwell}}
  • {{Citation | last = Storey | first = Christine | title = Poulton-le-Fylde | publisher = Tempus Publishing | location = Stroud | year = 2001 | isbn = 0-7524-2442-4 | ref = Storey}}

References

  1. "Singleton Parish".
  2. Ekwall, Eilert. (1922). "The Place Names of Lancashire". Manchester University Press..
  3. "History of Singleton".
  4. (2009). "Lancashire - North". Yale Univ. Press.
  5. [https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/weve-proved-the-haters-wrong-who-said-wed-never-be-able-to-turn-pub-around-4614102 "We've proved the haters wrong who said we've never turn around the fortunes of the Miller Arms in Singleton"] – ''[[Blackpool Gazette]]'', 2 May 2024
  6. Harvey, Fiona. (24 September 2011). "Energy firm Cuadrilla discovers huge gas reserves under Lancashire". The Guardian.
  7. Gosden, Emily. (5 July 2013). "Cuadrilla and Centrica unveil two-year fracking programme". The Telegraph.
  8. {{cite DNB. Boase. George Clement. (1893)
  9. [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790438 Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Fylde''] Retrieved 9 February 2010
  10. [[#Farrer. Farrer & Brownbill (1912)]], pp. 183–188
  11. [[#Hartwell. Hartwell & Pevsner (2009)]], p. 613
  12. "Church Of St Anne, Church Road". [[English heritage]].
  13. [[#Storey. Storey (2001)]], p. 9
  14. (3 July 2001). "The Borough of Fylde (Electoral Changes) Order 2001". [[legislation.gov.uk]].
  15. "Singleton and Greenhalgh". Fylde Borough Council.

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