Selsey
Proper noun
Meaning
Selsey
A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SZ8593).
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Examples
He persuaded his friends to let him go on the torpedo boat S-141 for a raid on Selsey on his 24th birthday.
Higham The English Conquest. p. 79. Wilfrid's biographer records that in the year 666 Wilfrid's ship ran aground on the Sussex coast near Selsey where it was attacked and a pagan priest sought to cast magic spells from a high mound.
Cædwalla confirmed Æthelwealh's grant of land and Wilfrid built his Selsey Abbey.
Engraving showing Cædwalla confirming the granting of land to Wilfrid to build his monastery in Selsey.
The coastline in this area has substantially changed since Roman times: it is believed much land has been lost from the coasts of Hayling and Selsey by erosion and subsequent flooding.
In 681, Bede records that an outbreak of the plague had devastated parts of England, including Sussex and the monks at Selsey Abbey fasted and prayed for three days for an end to the outbreak.