SELSTON, a parish in the northern division of the
wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 9
miles (S. W.) from Mansfield, containing 1321 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the
king's books at £ 5, endowed with £ 800 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of Sir W. Dixie, Bart. The
church is dedicated to St. Helen. The Mansfield and
Pinxton railway intersects the parish, in the neighbourhood
of which are extensive collieries.