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Selsey is a seaside town and civil parish, about eight miles (12 km) south of Chichester, in the Chichester District of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex, England. Selsey lies at the southernmost point of the Manhood Peninsula, almost cut off from mainland Sussex by the sea. It is bounded to the west by Bracklesham Bay, to the north by Broad Rife (''rife''〔Parish. A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect. pp. 96-97〕 being the local word for stream or creek), to the east by Pagham Harbour and terminates in the south at Selsey Bill. There are significant rock formations beneath the sea off both of its coasts, named the Owers rocks and Mixon rocks. Coastal erosion has been an ever present problem for Selsey.〔SCOPAC. (''Sedimentary Study from East Head to Pagham.'' ) Section 1.1. - The Standing Conference on Problems Associated with the Coastline (SCOPAC) was established in 1986 and consists of local authorities, the Environment agency and others. ''Archaeological evidence demonstrates that the coastline was some 2 to 3km seawards of where it is now at about 5,000 years''. Retrieved 5 February 2014〕 There is only one road (the B2145) in and out of the town, which at a point known as "the ferry", crosses a bridge over the water inlet at Pagham Harbour. At one time Selsey was inaccessible at flood tide, and a boat was stationed at the ferry to take horses and passengers to and from Sidlesham.〔Horsfield. History and Antiquities Vol II p.35.''A man and horse paid twopence; a foot passenger one halfpenny. The farmers and renters paid annually a certain portion of corn..''〕 ==Placename== According to Bede the name ''Selsey'' is derived from the Saxon ''Seals-ey'' and can be interpreted as ''the Isle of Sea Calves'' (sea calves are better known as seals).〔Bede. p.227〕 Edward Heron-Allen identified at least twenty different spellings of the place that we now know today as ''Selsey''.〔Heron-Allen.Selsey Historic. pp.6 - 7〕 A selection of versions as identified by Heron-Allen are: *''Seoles'' - Old English *''Seleisi'' - Domesday Book 1086 *''Celesye'' - Assize Roll 1279 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「selsey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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