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Acaster-Selby, a scattered township and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, though for parliamentary purposes it is included in the North Riding, on the river Ouse, 3 1/2 miles E of Bolton Percy railway station, and 8 S of York. Post town, Bolton Percy (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1573; population of the civil parish, 100; of the ecclesiastical, 493. The property belonged anciently to the abbey of Selby, and now belongs to the Wilner family, who are lords of the manor. A college for a provost and two or three fellows was founded on it by Robert Stillington. The church was built in 1850, and the living is a vicarage, joined to that of Appleton Roebuck, in the dioceso of York; net value, £897 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is very good.
