Selside is a small village in rural

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, England, about north of

Kendal Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness, England. It lies within the River Kent's dale, from which its name is derived, just outside the boundary of t ...

, close to the

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. It is now in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Selside and Fawcett Forest Selside and Fawcett Forest is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It was created on 1 April 2020, from the civil parishes of Fawcett Forest and Whitwell and Selside. It borders the parishes ...

, though it was formerly in the parish of Kendal. The population of

Whitwell and Selside Whitwell and Selside is a former civil parish, now part of the parish of Selside and Fawcett Forest, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It did not have a parish council but a parish meeting. Th ...

civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 296. St. Thomas's Church at Selside dates from 1838, with the tower added in 1894. Near to the church, Selside Hall incorporates the remains of two pele towers of the 15th and 16th centuries, with 18th-century and later alterations and additions.

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Villages in Cumbria Westmorland and Furness {{Cumbria-geo-stub

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