Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Samlesbury

Samlesbury, township, Blackburn par., NE. Lancashire, on river Ribble, 3½ miles E. of Preston, 4379 ac., pop. 752; contains the Samlesbury Paper Mills and Samlesbury Hall, seat.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Blackburn AP/CP       Samlesbury Ch/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Samlesbury

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