We could not match "SELSEY" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 16 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "SELSEY" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "SELSEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bracklesham Bay	Sussex	Sussex, 3 miles W. of Selsey Bill; rare fossil shells have been found in masses of clay on the sands.	Bartholomew
  BRACKLESHAM-BAY	Sussex	Selsey-Bill, and 6½ SSW of Chichester. Very rare fossil shells are found here in masses of clay on the sands	Imperial
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	Selsey Bill, 18 ENE of Portsmouth, and 28¾ W of Brighton. Its site is low flat ground, in a plain	Imperial
  CHICHESTER HARBOUR	Hampshire Sussex	Selsey Bill; is narrow at the entrance; expands to the width of 3¼ miles; goes northward 4¼ miles	Imperial
  DEAN (West)	Sussex	Selsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, not reported.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester	Imperial
  EARNLEY, or Ernley	Sussex	Selsey-Bill, and 5½ SSW of Chichester city and r. station. Post town, Sidlesham, under Chichester. Acres, 1, 182; of which	Imperial
  HAMPNETT (WEST), or WESTHAMPNETT	Sussex	Selsey. Acres, 7, 913. Poor rates in 1863, £, 398. Pop. in 185, 1, 268; in 186, 1,811. Houses	Imperial
  MANHOOD	Sussex	Selsey. Acres, 17,455. Pop., 3,418. Houses, 740.- The hundred is in Chichester rape, and is conterminate with the sub-district	Imperial
  NEWSELLS	Hertfordshire	passed to the Scaleses and the Chesters, Lords Selsey; and belongs now chiefly to the Hon. Mrs. V. Harcourt. Pop., 155.	Imperial
  OWERS	Sussex	Selsey Bill. A floating light is on it, put up in 1788, and visible at the distance of 10 miles	Imperial
  Owers Light-Vessel	Sussex	Owers, 7 m. SE. of Selsey Bill, Sussex; has a revolving light 34 ft. above high water and seen 10m.	Bartholomew
  PAGHAM	Sussex	Selsey parishes; wasformed by irruption of the sea, in the beginning of the14th century; has a narrow crooked entrance; expands	Imperial
  SELSEY	Sussex	SELSEY , a village and a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex. The village stands on a peninsula, ½ a milefrom the sea, 6½ S W of Bognor	Imperial
  Selsey (or Selsea)	Sussex	Selsey (or Selsea ), par. and vil., Sussex - par. (comprising the whole of Selsea Peninsula), 2600 ac. and 1445 tidal water	Bartholomew
  STEDHAM	Sussex	Selsey; and belongs now to J. Stoveld, Bart. S. Hall is the seat of J. Stoveld, Esq. The living is a rectory	Imperial
  TREYFORD	Sussex	Selsey, and others. The living is annexed to Elsted. The old church is disused, and the new one was built	Imperial

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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