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Samlesbury

Samlesbury is a village and civil parish in South Ribble, Lancashire, England.

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The place

Samlesbury is a village and civil parish in South Ribble, Lancashire, England. Samlesbury Hall, a historic house, is in the village, as is Samlesbury Aerodrome and a large modern brewery owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev. The population at the 2011 census was 1,206.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Samlesbury

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 52 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 64 km
  • Liverpool → Samlesbury
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £5–7
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Samlesbury
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Samlesbury
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £10–13
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Samlesbury

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Samlesbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries ply to Liverpool from: Dublin twice a day (P & O, 8 hours), though there are faster sailings from Dublin to Holyhead in North Wales.
  • Get inBelfast twice a day (Stena Line, 8 hours) Douglas Isle of Man three per day (Isle of Man Steam Packet, 2 hour 45 min); Douglas also has ferries to Heysham near Morecambe.
  • Get aroundLancashire is increasingly a cycle friendly place for on- and off-road cyclists.
  • Go nextOr hop on a ferry to Ireland or the Isle of Man.

From Wikivoyage: Lancashire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    258 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    294 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    320 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    320 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    354 km

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Samlesbury is 6 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.