Embleton is a village and
civil parish
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in the
English county of
Northumberland
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. Besides the village of Embleton itself, the civil parish includes the settlement of
Christon Bank, situated about a mile to the west.
Embleton village has a main street with one shop. There is a small green with the village pump on it, out of use now but at one time the source of the water supply. The village is about from
Embleton Bay. The sandy beach is backed by dunes where a variety of flowers bloom: bluebells, cowslips, burnet roses and bloody cranesbill, amongst others. Also near the beach is Embleton's 18-hole Dunstanburgh Castle Golf Course which opened in 1900 and was updated in 1922.
Christon Bank lies on the
East Coast Main Line railway, and until 1965 was
the site of a station.
Beyond the bounds of the parish,
Dunstanburgh Castle stands at the southern end of Embleton Bay. Close by, to the south, is the fishing village of
Craster.
Landmarks
Close by the church is
Embleton Tower, a
pele tower which was the vicarage until 1974.
The Creighton Memorial Hall is said to be the largest village hall in the county and is named after
Mandell Creighton, who was
vicar
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1875–1884 and later became
Bishop of London.
One road is named after the Embleton-born
W. T. Stead, a journalist and social campaigner who died in the sinking of the ''
Titanic''.
Religious sites
The
Church of the Holy Trinity is large with several interesting features and is historically connected with
Merton College, Oxford
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. Creighton, the vicar, had a poor opinion of the villagers:
"In many ways the moral standard of the village was very low, and it was a difficult place to improve. There was no resident squire, the chief employers of labour were on much the same level of cultivation as those they employed, and in some cases owned the public-houses and paid the wages there."[ Louise Creighton, ''Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, D.D.'', Vol. I, Longmans, Green, & Co, London, New York, Bombay, (1904).]
Notable people
*
Robert de Emeldon (died 1355),
Lord Treasurer of Ireland, and a personal friend of King
Edward III, was born in Embleton in the thirteenth century.
* Richard de Emeldon, who was Robert's cousin, and was later five times
mayor
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of
Newcastle upon Tyne
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and one of its leading citizens, was also born here.
*
W. T. Stead, journalist and social campaigner.
References
External links
The W. T. Stead resource site(Accessed: 24 November 2008) (Accessed: 24 November 2008)Embleton Parish Council official siteVillage site including Parish Council and Neighbourhood Plan Meeting minutes archivesEmbleton and Newton links
on the National Trust site
Villages in Northumberland
Towers in Northumberland
Civil parishes in Northumberland
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