Selworthy is a small village and civil parish 5 kilometres (3 mi) from Minehead in Somerset, England.

Near the summit are a series of cairns, thought to be the remains of round barrows,[2] and the British Iron Age Bury Castle.

In the 1990s rising sea levels created salt marshes, and lagoons developed in the area behind the boulder bank.

[6] It was held by Queen Edith of Wessex in 1066 and, with Luccombe, was awarded to Ralph de Limesy by William the Conqueror.

[9] Selworthy was rebuilt as a model village, to provide housing for the aged and infirm of the Holnicote estate, in 1828 by Sir Thomas Acland,[10] in a similar style to Blaise Hamlet, Bristol, which had been built a few years earlier.

[11] Many of the other cottages, whose walls are painted with limewash that has been tinted creamy yellow with ochre, some of which are now rented out, are still thatched and are listed buildings.

Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

[19] It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[3] The liturgical scholar and church historian Francis Carolus Eeles OBE is buried in the churchyard.