Embleton, Cumbria

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Embleton
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Embleton
Location in Allerdale, Cumbria
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Embleton
Location within Cumbria
Population294 (2011 including Wythop)
OS grid reference NY163301
Civil parish
  • Embleton
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town COCKERMOUTH
Postcode district CA13
Dialling code 017687
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Website embletonparish.com
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54°39′32″N3°17′49″W / 54.659°N 3.297°W / 54.659; -3.297 Coordinates: 54°39′32″N3°17′49″W / 54.659°N 3.297°W / 54.659; -3.297

Embleton [1] is a small village and civil parish located in the Allerdale district in Cumbria, England. It is located east of Cockermouth on the A66 road, and within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park.

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As of the 2001 census the parish had a population of 297, [2] reducing slightly to 294 at the 2011 Census. [3]

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.

Sometime around 1854 a schoolmaster digging in commonland 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 [4]

Governance

Embleton is within the Copeland UK Parliamentary constituency, Trudy Harrison is the Member of parliament. [5]

Before Brexit, its residents were covered by the North West England European Parliamentary Constituency.

It has its own parish council, jointly with the parishes of Dubwath, Setmurthy and Wythop, known as Embleton and District Parish Council. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Embleton + District".
  2. ↑ "2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Head counts: Area: Embleton CP (Parish)". Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 20 July 2008.
  3. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. ↑ MacGregor, Morna (1976). Early Celtic Art in Northern Britain. Leicester University Press.
  5. ↑ "Copeland".
  6. ↑ "Embleton Setmurthy & Wythop". Parish Council. Allerdale Borough Council. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

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