taxonomy variable not rendering in cpt single title

I have a custom post type, and I’m trying to display its title as :

Post Title, Town : Site Name

… where Town is a term from the taxonomy ‘town’ to which the post is assigned.

So, I’m using this arrangement of template variables :

%%title%% %%page%%, %%ct_<town>%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%

… but the part %%ct_<town>%% is not rendering. Instead it’s being output into the title tag as %%ct_%%

Any advice / feedback on this would be much appreciated!

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