Selby

Selby is a market town in 14 miles south of York, with a population in 2024 of 20,000. Its main attraction is the abbey, with a stained glass window depicting the original "Stars and Stripes".
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  • Type: Town with 24,900 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: “Selby, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Selby Abbey and Selby railway station.

Church
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is a former Benedictine abbey and current…

Railway station
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Grade II listed station…

Theater building
Photo: David Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipal building in York Street in Selby, , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barlby and Osgodby.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of , in , England.

Hamlet
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is a village in the civil parish…

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in , England. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Selby.

Selby

Latitude
53.784° or 53° 47′ 2″ north
Longitude
-1.0688° or 1° 4′ 8″ west
Population
24,900
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB SLB
Open location code
9C5WQWMJ+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21448742
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638235
Wiki­data ID
Q527846
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Selby” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سلبي”
  • Armenian: “Սելբի”
  • Asturian: “Selby”
  • Basque: “Selby”
  • Belarusian: “Селбі”
  • Bengali: “সেলবি”
  • Catalan: “Selby”
  • Cebuano: “Selby”
  • Chinese: “塞尔比”
  • Chinese: “塞爾比”
  • Czech: “Selby”
  • Danish: “Selby”
  • Dutch: “Selby”
  • Esperanto: “Selby”
  • French: “Selby”
  • Galician: “Selby”
  • German: “Selby”
  • Gujarati: “સેલ્બી”
  • Hebrew: “סלבי”
  • Irish: “Selby”
  • Italian: “Selby”
  • Japanese: “セルビー”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆಲ್ಬಿ”
  • Korean: “셀비”
  • Ladin: “Selby”
  • Lithuanian: “Selbis”
  • Moksha: “Сэлби”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Selby”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Selby”
  • Norwegian: “Selby”
  • Persian: “سلبی”
  • Polish: “Selby”
  • Portuguese: “Selby”
  • Romanian: “Selby”
  • Russian: “Селби”
  • Silesian: “Selby”
  • Slovak: “Selby”
  • Slovenian: “Selby”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سلبی”
  • Spanish: “Selby”
  • Swedish: “Selby”
  • Tamil: “செல்பய்”
  • Telugu: “సెల్బి”
  • Turkish: “Selby”
  • Urdu: “سیلبی”
  • Volapük: “Selby”
  • Welsh: “Selby”

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