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 South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south-east of Windermere and north of Lancaster. Historically in Westmorland, it lies within the dale of th ...

, close to the

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. It is now in the

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of Selside and Fawcett Forest, though it was formerly in the parish of Kendal. The population of Whitwell and Selside 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

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of the 15th and 16th centuries, with 18th-century and later alterations and additions.

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Villages in Cumbria South Lakeland District {{Cumbria-geo-stub

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