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    Judith McNaught

    Embleton
    Embleton Church
    Embleton is located in Cumbria
    Embleton
    Embleton
    Location within Cumbria
    Population278 (Parish, 2021)[1]
    OS grid referenceNY163301
    Civil parish
    • Embleton
    Unitary authority
    Ceremonial county
    Region
    CountryEngland
    Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
    Post townCOCKERMOUTH
    Postcode districtCA13
    Dialling code017687
    PoliceCumbria
    FireCumbria
    AmbulanceNorth West
    UK Parliament
    Websiteembletonparish.com
    List of places
    UK
    England
    Cumbria
    54°39′32″N 3°17′49″W / 54.659°N 3.297°W / 54.659; -3.297

    Embleton is a small village and civil parish located in the Cumberland district in Cumbria, England. It is located east of Cockermouth on the A66 road, and within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park.

    History

    Sometime around 1854 a schoolmaster digging in common land at Embleton came across a hoard of weapons dating to the 1st century AD, the transition between the Late Iron Age and Early Roman period. It comprised three iron spearheads and two swords, one of which was in a decorated copper-alloy scabbard. The latter object can now be seen in the British Museum.[2]

    Embleton railway station opened in 1865, on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, and was closed by British Rail in 1958 although the railway through the village survived until 1966. The trackbed has now been used for the route of the A66 road.

    Governance

    There are two tiers of local government covering Embleton, at parish and unitary authority level: Embleton and District Parish Council and Cumberland Council. The parish council is a grouped parish council, covering the three civil parishes of Embleton, Setmurthy (in which the main settlement is Dubwath), and Wythop. The parish council meets at Embleton Village Hall.[3] The parish is wholly within the Lake District National Park, and so some functions are administered by the Lake District National Park Authority, notably planning.[4]

    Embleton is within the Penrith and Solway UK Parliamentary constituency.[5]

    Administrative history

    Embleton was historically a township in the ancient parish of Brigham, which formed part of the historic county of Cumberland.[6][7] The township of Embleton took on civil functions under the poor laws from the 17th century onwards. As such, the township also became a civil parish in 1866, when the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws.[8]

    When elected parish and district councils were established in 1894, Embleton was included in the Cockermouth Rural District.[7] Cockermouth Rural District was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the borough of Allerdale in the new county of Cumbria.[9][10] Allerdale was in turn abolished in 2023 when the new Cumberland Council was created, also taking over the functions of the abolished Cumbria County Council in the area.[11]

    Demography

    At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 278.[1] At the 2001 census the population was 297,[12] and in 2011 it was 294.[13]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ a b "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual community data, use the query function on table PP002.)
    2. ^ MacGregor, Morna (1976). Early Celtic Art in Northern Britain. Leicester University Press.
    3. ^ "Embleton and District Parish Council". Retrieved 20 April 2025.
    4. ^ "Planning". Lake District National Park. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
    5. ^ "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
    6. ^ Whellan, William (1860). The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. p. 295. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
    7. ^ a b "Embleton Chapelry / Civil Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
    8. ^ Youngs, Frederic (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume II, Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. xv. ISBN 0861931270.
    9. ^ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1972/2039, retrieved 3 March 2023
    10. ^ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1973/551, retrieved 3 March 2023
    11. ^ "The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2022/331, retrieved 24 January 2024
    12. ^ "2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Head counts: Area: Embleton CP (Parish)". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
    13. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 26 January 2016.

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