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 Anhe
Belisama
…identified with the river Ribble or Mersey, may suggest that she was a tutelary goddess of the region. Ronald Hutton also postulated that the name of Samlesbury may derive from a corruption of the theonym. According to James MacKillop, the attestation of Belisama as a river name may indicate that she was a lake…