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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Embleton like this:
EMBLETON, a chapelry, with a r. station, in Brigham parish, Cumberland; on the railway to Penrith, 2¾ miles E by S of Cockermouth. Post town, Cockermouth. Acres, 3, 870. Real property, £4, 179. Pop., 363-Houses, 73. The property is much subdivided. The surface is chiefly a pleasant vale, watered by a streamlet from the Wythop fells. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £97. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is modern.
Embleton is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Embleton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Embleton in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1559
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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