Editing Embleton, Northumberland

{{Short description|Village in Northumberland, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
|official_name= Embleton
|country = England 
|civil_parish=  Embleton
|unitary_england=        [[Northumberland]]
|lieutenancy_england=    [[Northumberland]]
|region= North East England
|constituency_westminster= [[North Northumberland (UK Parliament constituency)|North Northumberland]]
|population = 672
|population_ref=(2011 census)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Parish population 2011 |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123218&c=NE66+3DJ&d=16&e=62&g=6452785&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1435588292085&enc=1 |access-date=29 June 2015}}</ref>
|post_town = ALNWICK
|postcode_area = NE 
|postcode_district = NE66
|dial_code = 01665
|os_grid_reference = NU231225
|coordinates = {{coord|55.496|-1.635|display=inline,title}}
|label_position = top
|static_image_name= Embleton Church 1.png
|static_image_caption= Embleton Church, late 19th century 
}}
'''Embleton''' is a village and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[England|English]] county of [[Northumberland]]. 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 {{convert|0.5|mi|km}} 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Golf Links |url=https://www.dunstanburgh.com/the-course |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Dunstanburgh Castle Golf Course |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Christon Bank lies on the [[East Coast Main Line|East Coast Main Line railway]], and until 1965 was [[Christon Bank railway station|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]] 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, Embleton|Church of the Holy Trinity]] is large with several interesting features and is historically connected with [[Merton College, Oxford]]. Creighton, the vicar, had a poor opinion of the villagers:
<blockquote>"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."<ref>[[Louise Creighton]], ''Life and Letters of [[Mandell Creighton]], D.D.'', Vol. I, Longmans, Green, & Co, London, New York, Bombay, (1904).</ref></blockquote>

==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]] of [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] and one of its leading citizens, was also born here.
* [[W. T. Stead]], journalist and social campaigner.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Embleton, Northumberland}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514154015/http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/ The W. T. Stead resource site] 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090108173856/http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Embleton/index.html GENUKI] <small>(Accessed: 24 November 2008)</small> 	*[http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Embleton.htm Northumberland Communities] <small>(Accessed: 24 November 2008)</small>
*[https://northumberlandparishes.uk/embleton Embleton Parish Council official site]
*[http://www.embleton-northumberland.co.uk/ Village site including Parish Council and Neighbourhood Plan Meeting minutes archives]
*[https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/embleton-and-newton-links Embleton and Newton links] on the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] site

{{Coastal settlements
|place         = Northumberland
|settlement    = Embleton
|anticlockwise = [[Newton-by-the-Sea]]
|clockwise     = [[Craster]]
}}

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[[Category:Civil parishes in Northumberland]]


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