SELSIDE, a chapelry in that part of the parish of KENDAL which is in KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from Kendal, containing, with the township of Whitwell, 291 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Inhabitants. The chapel, dedicated to Christ, was built about 1720, by the inhabitants, on a site given by William Thornburgh, Esq., the descendant of a Roman Catholic family, proprietors of Selside Hall, in consideration of his being allowed to devote the original chapel, attached to the hall of his ancestors, to his own religion; it is now the kitchen of a farm-house. The free school, which was rebuilt by subscription in 1793, is supported from several sources, the principal being an estate left by John Kitching, in 1730, now producing an annual income of £50, for the education of all the poor children of the chapelry.