Singleton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Singleton
Historical Forms
- Silletone 1086 DB
- Sengelton t.Steph LibB 1185 P 1242 Fees690 1248,1262 Ass 1271,1273,1330 Ipm
- Sengylton 1509 LP
- Schingelton 1181 P
- Singelton, Syngelton 1189 P 1361,1417 IpmR
- Singleton 1379 IpmR
- Sangelton 1325,1330 Ipm 1327 SR 1345 Pat 1348 FF 1397 IpmR
- Sangleton 1345 Pat
Etymology
In addition to these forms it seems clear that we should take the Sængelpicos (sic) of BCS 144 as having some connexion with Singleton, for the grant relates to the neighbouring parish of East or West Dean. This, together with the numerous ME forms in Sangel -, makes it clear that the first element is a lost OE sængel , found also in the old name for Cowdray, v. supra 17. There is a dialect word sangle , songle used in D, Co, Ch, He and Sa of a 'handful of ears of corn, a small sheaf.'This would seem to be the same as the LGer sangele , used in Westphalia of 'a small bundle,' 'a tuft,' and found by Jellinghaus in various place-names (v. Die Westfalischen ON s. v ).He takes it to be an expansion of the simple form sange , used in the same sense. If that is the word here and in Sengle Park we must take it that the word might also be used in English of a 'bundle' or possibly of 'a thicket of brushwood,' for in both cases we have to do with old woodland areas.