Sovereign state United Kingdom Admin. HQ Selby Area 599.3 km² University Selby College | Constituent country England Area rank 70th Shire county North Yorkshire | |
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Region Yorkshire and the Humber Time zone Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) Points of interest Selby Abbey, Summit Indoor Adventure, Abbot's Staith, Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens, Tadcaster Castle Destinations Selby, Tadcaster, Cawood, Knottingley, Riccall | ||
Selby is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England. The local authority, Selby District Council, is based in the town of Selby and provides services to an area which includes Tadcaster and a host of villages. The Local Authority had a population of 83,449 at the 2011 Census.
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Map of Selby District, UK
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Selby Urban District, Selby Rural District and parts of Derwent Rural District, Hemsworth Rural District, Osgoldcross Rural District and Tadcaster Rural District. Of them, Derwent Rural District was in the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, but the rest were in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
On 1 April 1996, the parishes of Acaster Malbis, Askham Bryan, Askham Richard, Bishopthorpe, Copmanthorpe, Deighton, Dunnington, Elvington, Fulford, Heslington, Kexby, Naburn and Wheldrake were all transferred from the district to form part of the new City of York unitary authority. According to the 2001 census, those parishes had a population of 22,873.
Selby is twinned with Carentan in France and Filderstadt in Germany.
Towns and villages
Settlements in the district of Selby include:
Barlby, Barlow, Bilbrough, Burn, Brayton Camblesforth, Carlton, Cawood, Church Fenton, Cliffe Drax Eggborough, Escrick Gateforth Haddlesey, Hambleton, Hemingbrough, Hensall, Hillam Kellington, Kirk Smeaton Lumby Monk Fryston North Duffield Osgodby Riccall Selby, Sherburn-in-Elmet, South Milford Tadcaster, Thorganby, Thorpe Willoughby Ulleskelf Wistow