Description
Embleton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, in Brigham parish, Cumberland, with a station on the Cocker-mouth, Keswick, and Penrith railway, 2 miles E by S of Cockermouth, which is the post town. Acreage of township, 3952; population, 376; of the ecclesiastical parish, 357. The township comprises the hamlets of Beckhouse, High Side, Shatton, Stanger, and Stanger Hill. The surface is chiefly a pleasant vale, watered by a streamlet from the Wythop fells. Lord Leconfield is the lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle ; gross value, £130 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church was rebuilt in 1806, and thoroughly renovated, with addi- tions, in 1884.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
