Selsey is a seaside town and
civil parish, about eight miles (12 km) south of
Chichester, in the Chichester District of West Sussex, within the
historic county of Sussex, England. Selsey lies at the southernmost point of the
Manhood Peninsula, almost cut off from mainland
Sussex by the sea. It is bounded to the west by Bracklesham Bay, to the north by Broad Rife (
rife being the local word for stream or creek), to the east by Pagham Harbour and terminates in the south at
Selsey Bill. There are significant rock formations beneath the sea off both of its coasts, named the Owers rocks and Mixon rocks. Coastal erosion has been an ever present problem for Selsey.