Embleton, Northumberland

Description
Embleton, a township in Sedgefield parish, Durham, 7 miles ESE of the borough of Hartlepool. Area, 3425 acres; population, 147. There is a chapel of ease here, which is served from Sedgefield, and a private school. Post town, Castle Eden. Embleton, a village, a township, and a pariah in Northumberland. The village stands near the coast, 1 1/4 mile ESE of Christon Bank railway station, and 7 1/4 miles NE by N of Ainwick; is irregularly built; and has a post and money order office under Chathill (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Christon Bank railway station. The township includes the village, and comprises 2077 acres; population of township, 658 ; of ecclesiastical parish, with Craster, 1563. The parish contains also the townships of Stamford, Craster, Dun-ston, Newton - by - the - Sea, Fallodon, Rock, Rennington, Broxfield, and Brunton. The manor belongs to the Eyre Trustees, who are the chief landowners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £666 with residence. Patron, Merton College, Oxford. The church is a fine old structure, the oldest part being Norman, has an embattled tower, was restored in 1850, and the chancel rebuilt in 1867. The parsonage was anciently fortified, and has still a machicolated tower. There are also a Presbyterian church, a cemetery formed in 1884 under the control of a burial board, and a whinstone quarry.