Selsey

Selsey, or SELSEA, a village of 900 inhabitants, on a flat and dreary but fertile peninsula on the Sussex coast, 7 miles S. of Chichester. Here in the middle of the 7th century the cathedral church of the South Saxons was founded by Wilfrid of York; and Selsey was the see of a succession of twenty-two bishops, till in 1079 the seat of the bishopric was transferred to Chichester by Bishop Stigand. The sea has made great encroachments on the peninsula, which ends in Selsey Bill; and the site of the old cathedral is now submerged.