SINGLETON, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKHAM,
hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Poulton, containing
501 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £ 1000 private benefaction, and £ 1200
royal bounty, and in the patronage of - Shaw, Esq.
The chapel, consecrated in 1754, is dedicated to St.
Anne. There is a great fair for sheep and cattle on
September 21st.