Singleton

A museum village in a beautiful downland valley with one of England's finest open-air heritage collections

Singleton sits in the Lavant valley approximately two miles north of the Goodwood estate, best known as the home of the Weald and Downland Living Museum. The village has a medieval church, the Partridge Inn pub and a small number of houses clustered in the valley bottom. The Weald and Downland Living Museum, on the edge of the village, is one of the most important open-air museums in England, housing over fifty rescued historic buildings from across south-east England. The surrounding landscape of downland and beech hangers provides outstanding walking, and the South Downs Way passes along the ridge above the village. West Dean Gardens, a celebrated restored garden with a walled kitchen garden and Harold Peto pergola, is a short walk north.