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Although the place name Selsey has existed since Saxon times, and is derived from the Old English meaning Seal's Island, there is no evidence to suggest that the place name Selsey Bill is particularly old. [1] [2] A 1698 survey of the area included in a report for the Royal Navy, by Dummer and Wiltshaw mentioned Selsey Island but not Selsey Bill.
The name has changed in its third consonant spoken, and its spellings over the years. Manwed is on the Armada map of 1587, Manhode on a map of 1663 and Manhope on Morden's map of 1695. [ 1 ] The name is probably derived from the Old English gemǣnewudu meaning "woodland held in common".
The earliest surviving manuscript to contain the name is the late ninth-century Manuscript A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which gives it in the form Cymenesora.Outside the Chronicle, what is generally believed to be the same name is next attested in a thirteenth-century manuscript: this includes a copy of a charter adapted from a charter issued in 957, which gives the form on Cymeneres horan ...
Selsey had an RNLI lifeboat station and shop on Kingsway, east of Selsey Bill. The station was established in 1861. The station was established in 1861. In 2014 Selsey had a Tyne-class lifeboat and a D Class Inshore Lifeboat which had its own boat house just off the beach.
Selsey Bill is not a seperate entity to Selsey it is a part of Selsey and is a relatively new name, first seen on Philip Overtons map of Sussex, in 1740. Selsey Bill consists of soft sands, sandy clays etc. it is the pointy bit of the peninsular, in other words the beach. The name Selsey Bill is usually interchangeable with Selsey.
While it's something that nearly all Americans have come into contact with, there remains an enormous shroud of mystery around many of the bill's markings. The hidden messages of the American $1 ...
Short title: Selsey Bill and the Hounds Marine Conservation Zone boundary map; Author: Defra: Software used: Esri ArcMap 10.3.1.4959: Date and time of digitizing
We come in contact with it all the time, but the markings on the one-dollar bill remain shrouded in mystery. Until now. 1. The Creature. In the upper-right corner of the bill, above the left of ...