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Selby District
Shown within North Yorkshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Admin. County:	North Yorkshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 76th 599.31 km�
Admin. HQ:	Selby
ONS code:	36UH
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 299th 77,984 130 / km�
Ethnicity:	99.3% White
Politics
Selby District Council http://www.selby.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:	Conservative
MP:	John Grogan

Selby is a local government district in 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.

Since the City of York was removed from North Yorkshire, Selby has been rather isolated from the rest of the county. It is expected that if a regional assembly for Yorkshire and the Humber is introduced and North Yorkshire County Council abolished, then Selby will be annexed to the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of Selby Urban District and parts of Derwent Rural District, Hemsworth Rural District, Osgoldcross Rural District and Tadcaster Rural District.

Selby is home to Selby Abbey, over 1000 years old and the centerpiece to this bustling market town. Selby Abbey is believed to hold the inspiration for the flag of the USA with the Washington Window. See http://www.selbynet.co.uk/abbey/

Places

Settlements in the district of Selby include:

Bilbrough, Burn, Brayton

Camblesforth, Carlton, Cawood, Church Fenton

Drax

Eggborough, Escrick

Gateforth

Haddlesey, Hambleton, Hemingbrough, Hensall

Kirk Smeaton

Lumby

Monk Fryston

North Duffield

Osgodby

Ricall

Sherburn-in-Elmet, South Milford

Thorganby

Ulleskelf

Wistow

Districts of England - Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley \| Bradford \| Calderdale \| Craven \| Doncaster \| East Riding of Yorkshire \| Hambleton \| Harrogate \| Hull \| Kirklees \| Leeds \| North Lincolnshire \| North East Lincolnshire \| Richmondshire \| Rotherham \| Ryedale \| Scarborough \| Selby \| Sheffield \| Wakefield \| York
Administrative counties with multiple districts: North Yorkshire - South Yorkshire - West Yorkshire

Categories: North Yorkshire

Results from FactBites:

Selby (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (275 words)
	The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of Selby Urban District and parts of Derwent Rural District, Hemsworth Rural District, Osgoldcross Rural District and Tadcaster Rural District.
	As a result Selby is now geographically isolated from much of the rest of North Yorkshire, and it had been suggested in now-moot plans in association with regional assemblies that it would be better annexed to the East Riding of Yorkshire unitary authority than with any of the other North Yorkshire districts.
	Selby is twinned with Carentan in France and Filderstadt in Germany.

Selby: Information from Answers.com (970 words)
	It is the main town in the Selby district of the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire despite being within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
	King Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, was born in Selby in either 1068 or 1069.
	The town of Selby is dominated by Selby Abbey which was founded by Benedict in 1069 and subsequently built by the de Lacy family.

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