Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Selesat(e) 1190–1210 Cockers 1196 FF 1217–30 Cockers

• Selesete 1196 Kendii,116

• Selset(e) 1360 Kendi,224 1361 1591 PR(K)

• Selsett(e) 1361,1523,1560,1605 FF

• -als. Selside 1635 FF

• Selsat(e) 1241 Kendii,118 1283,1376 Ipm 1436 Kend

• Selsath 1332 SR

• Selsacht 1337 SR

• Selshed(e) 1435,1459 Kendi,240–1 1475 Pat 1574 Rent212

• Selsed(e) 1439 Pat 1553 Kendi,242 1591–1610 PR(K)

• Selsid(e), Selsyd(e) 1543 FF 1556 Kendi,92 1558 PR(K) 1657 Comm

• -Hall 1671 Fleming 1777 M

• Selsaid 1563 RichWill

Etymology

'Shieling near the willows', v. selja , sǽtr , cf. Selside (YW vi, 220), Norw  Seljesæter (NG xii, 366, etc.), and Selside Brow (i, 163infra ).