Editing Selborne (section)

==The village==
[[File:St Marys Church, Selborne (geograph 5690397).jpg|thumb|left|St Mary's Church, Selborne]]

[[St Mary's Church, Selborne|St Mary the Virgin]] is a Grade I listed church<ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-143031-church-of-st-mary-selborne-hampshire British listed buildings] retrieved 17 July 2013.</ref> that dates back to the late 12th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astoft.co.uk/selbornechurch.htm|title=Selborne, Hampshire - St Mary's Church|work=Astoft|year=2001–2004|access-date=30 March 2010}}</ref> There is a primary school, and one [[public house]] the "Selborne Arms".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/towns/selborne/hampshire/|work=Pubs Galore|title=Pubs in Selborne|access-date=30 March 2010}}</ref> A bus service that runs through the village links it to [[Alton, Hampshire|Alton]] and [[Petersfield]].

At the back of the village, behind the Selborne Arms and Gilbert White's Field Studies Centre, there is the ''Zig-Zag Path'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/777046|title=The Zig Zag path up Selborne Hanger|date=25 April 2008|author=Hugh Craddock|access-date=30 March 2010}}</ref> which was cut into the hillside in the 1760s by Gilbert White and his brother John, to provide easier access to the Hanger and [[Selborne Common]] on the summit of [[Selborne Hill]].

A complete history of Selborne, from its geology through its establishment as a settlement in the [[Early Middle Ages|Dark Ages]] to the present day, including a study of local architecture, was locally published in March 2009: ''Knights, Priests & Peasants'' was written by Dr. Edward Yates, a retired academic polymath and long-time resident of the village. Its 400 pages include oral histories from the turn of the 19th/20th centuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.altonbooks.co.uk/index.cfm?dsp=local|title=Local Books|work=Alton Books: The Little Green Dragon Bookshop|year=2003–2010|access-date=30 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507071428/http://www.altonbooks.co.uk/index.cfm?dsp=local|archive-date=7 May 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>