SELSEY, (Sussex) a peninsula on the Channel, to the S. E. of Thorney-Isle, encompassed with the sea, except on the W.
side, where it is joined to the Co. by a slip of land, not above a stone's-throw in breadth. The street of the T. is a
dry, gravelly soil, and therefore not so unhealthy as many places, so low and so near the sea. In the Saxons time it had a
mon. and was honoured with the see of a Bp. which the 22d Bp. removed to Chichester. In Camden's time some remains of its
ancient little city, in which the first Bps. resided, were plainly visible at low-water. This peninsula has several
fishing-houses towards the shore, where excellent cockles are gathered; and it produces the finest wheat.