Place:Selby Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Selby was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Selby rural sanitary district which was in the West Riding (the East Riding parts going on to form the Riccal Rural District).

It remained largely unchanged, although it lost the parishes of Biggin and Little Fenton to Tadcaster Rural District on 1 April 1937.^[1]

It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, going to form part of an enlarged district of Selby, in North Yorkshire.

Civil Parishes

• Barlow
• Biggin (to Tadcaster Rural in the 1930s)
• Brayton
• Burn
• Camblesforth
• Carlton (near Snaith)
• Cawood
• Chapel Haddlesey
• Drax (including Long Drax and Newland)
• Gateforth
• Hambleton
• Hirst Courtney
• Little Fenton (to Tadcaster Rural in the 1930s)
• Temple Hirst
• Thorpe Willoughby
• West Haddlesey
• Wistow

Research Tips

• A Vision of Britain through Time on Selby Rural District. This section provides statistics on population and industry, as well as a listing of the civil parishes and the alterations to the municipal organization.