About Selby
Selby is a busy and growing market town, 12 miles south of the City of York, in North Yorkshire, England. Although historically part of Yorkshire's West Riding, Selby is now the southern most district in the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire.
The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book which indicates that the village was settled before the Norman Conquest. The name is thought to be derived from the meaning of a 'Farm where apple trees grew' and from the name of its 14 century owner a man named 'Rabuk'.
An ancient village dating back to the early 9th century. Sitting half a mile from the Roman road from York to Tadcaster. Roman remains have been found here.
Bolton Percy was a well established village by the time the Domesday Book was compiled.
The earliest record for Cawood goes back to 937 AD when King Athelstan (Grandson of Alfred the Great and first King of a unified England) granted the castle to Archbishop Whulstan. The castle was used as the residence of the Archbishops of York.
Bertram Haget granted hermitage land in the wood at Healaugh to Gilbert, a monk of Marmoutier. His son confirmed the charter and it was witnessed by Abbot Clement, St Mary's York, who succeeded in 1161 and died in 1184 therefore the hermitage must have been founded around this time.
Although it is not known exactly when Selby was founded, it is thought that a small number of Anglo-Vikings lived here in a settlement know as Seleby. The name is derived from the Saxon word for the Willow Copes which were found on the banks of the River Ouse, 'Sele', with 'by' being the Viking word for town.
Tadcaster, a town on the River Wharfe and sitting on limestone geology was founded by the Romans and named Calcaria (from the latin word for lime). Tadcaster was an important staging post on the road to Eboracum (York).
The Plantagenet king, King Edward III reigned from 1327-1377. The House of Lancaster and The House of York were branches of The House of Plantagenet.