Selston

Selston
Nottinghamshire
St Helen, Selston
Location
Grid reference:	SK467530
Location:	53°4’12"N, 1°18’0"W
Data
Population:	12,596  (2011, with Bagthorpe)
Post town:	Nottingham
Postcode:	NG16
Dialling code:	01773
Local Government
Council:	Ashfield
Parliamentary constituency:	Ashfield

Selston is a large village approximately twelve miles north of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire.

Close by syand such villages as Underwood to the south, Annesley to the east, and the Derbyshire border to the west.

Parish church

The parish church, St. Helen's, dates back to 1150, although the exterior of the church was altered by restoration and enlargement in 1899.

An older Saxon church is thought to have occupied the site, and there is a monolith in the churchyard, of unknown origin, though local tradition assumes that it was of ceremonial importance for pagans in an ancient age.

About the village

The village has a -a-side football pitch on the site of the Leisure Centre.

Since the year 2000 new housing estates have been built in Selston as more families requested to live in the area. The last trace of the Holland Family, responsible for the building of Matthew Holland School in Selston, was removed when David Holland, great grandson of Matthew, sold his greengrocer's shop. It was demolished in 2005.

In 2006 the Matthew Holland School, having become a specialist school with Visual Arts status, changed its name to the Selston Arts and Community College, and then again a few years later to Selston High School, though remaining a comprehensive school.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Selston)