Template:Wp-Acaster Selby-History

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The name is derived from the Latin word for a camp, 'castra', indicating that the Roman army may once have been based near here. There is no longer any signs of such an encampment which was thought to have provided protection of the waterway to Tadcaster. The use of Selby indicates that the lands were brought within the control of Selby Abbey. This was done by Osbert de Arches at the time of the Norman Conquest and confirmed in the reign of Richard I.^[1]

The village is listed in the Domesday Book as Acastre in the wapentake of Ainsty in the West Riding of Yorkshire, having 11 households under the lordship of Wulstan, who was replaced by Robert Malet in 1086.

College Farm at Acaster Selby is named after a former college, or a chantry, which was dissolved during the reign of Henry VIII.^[1] The site of the St Andrew's College, to the north-east of the farm, is a scheduled monument and includes extensive earthworks of buildings and a moated enclosure.