Samlesbury

Coordinates: 53°46′05″N 2°37′16″W / 53.768°N 2.621°W / 53.768; -2.621
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Samlesbury
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPRESTON
Postcode districtPR5
Dialling code01772
PoliceLancashire
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AmbulanceNorth West
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Lancashire
53°46′05″N 2°37′16″W / 53.768°N 2.621°W / 53.768; -2.621

Samlesbury (

2011 census was 1,206.[1]

History

The village's name is derived from the Old English sceamol, meaning ledge and burh meaning fortification, hence literally "ledge fortification".[2] It may also be that the name at least partly derives from the Roman name for the River Ribble and its eponymous Celtic deity, Belisama.[3]

In the

The Great Raid of 1322. An heiress, Alicia Denyas, married Gilbert de Southworth, the builder of Samlesbury Hall.[4]

The parish was part of Preston Rural District throughout its existence from 1894 to 1974.[5] In 1974 the parish became part of South Ribble.

Samlesbury Hall

Samlesbury Hall
Main article: Samlesbury Hall

Samlesbury Hall is a

public house
and girls' boarding school, but since 1925, when it was saved from being demolished for its timber, it has been administered by a registered charitable trust, the Samlesbury Hall Trust. This Grade I listed medieval manor house attracts more than 50,000 visitors each year.

Religious buildings

Samlesbury parish church

Roman Catholic church is St Mary and St John Southworth. There was previously also a Wesleyan Methodist
chapel.

Education

Samlesbury benefits from having its own primary school called Samlesbury Church of England Primary School. The school is located beside the Church of St Leonard the Less, on the banks of the River Ribble.[6]

Samlesbury witches

Main article: Samlesbury witches

The Samlesbury witches—Jane Southworth, Jennet Brierley and Ellen Brierley—were accused of child murder and cannibalism and tried at

Assizes on 19 August 1612, in the same series of trials as the Pendle witches. All three were found not guilty in a trial which one historian has described as "largely a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda".[7]

Samlesbury brewery

Samlesbury brewery is a large modern brewery belonging to InBev. It was completed in 1972 to brew Heineken lager for Whitbread. It produces Boddington's Bitter, and bottled and keg Bass Pale Ale for export.[8]

Samlesbury Engineering

Main article:
Samlesbury Engineering

Berlin Airlift.[9]
It later diversified into bus and truck body manufacturing. When work started to dry up, it moved to the south side of the airfield.

Their workshop, where the ill-fated Bluebird K7 was designed and built,[10] was on the car park behind Samlesbury Hall. Bluebird K7 was the turbo jet-engined hydroplane in which Donald Campbell set seven world water speed records during the 1950s and in which he was killed on Coniston Water in 1967.[11]

Samlesbury Engineering sold off the vehicle body business around 1961, and the remaining aviation activities soon became part of what is now

BAE Samlesbury
.

See also

References

Notes

  1. Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  2. ^ Samlesbury, University of Nottingham's Institute for Name-Studies, retrieved 18 August 2009
  3. ^ Hutton 1993, p. 218
  4. ^ Leslie Irving Gibson (1977). Lancashire Castles and Towers. Clapham, North Yorkshire: Dalesman Books. p. 44.
  5. ^ Preston RD, Vision of Britain, accessed 9 June 2014
  6. ^ "Samlesbury Church of England Primary School". samlesbury.net. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  7. ^ Hasted 1993, pp. 32–33
  8. ^ "Samlesbury (InBev UK - InBev)". ratebeer.com. Retrieved 2 September 2009.
  9. ^ "G-AWMV - Queen of the Irish Sea". Miscellavia. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  10. ^ "Samlesbury Engineering Ltd". The Aviation Ancestry Database of British Aviation Industry Advertisements 1909-1990. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  11. ^ "Made in Preston". Retrieved 13 February 2013.

Bibliography

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