Embleton

Embleton Bay - miles of golden sand
leading to Dunstanburgh Castle.

Embleton village in the English county of Northumberland is about half-a-mile from the beautiful bay which carries its name. The sandy beach is backed by dunes where a variety of flowers bloom: bluebells, cowslips, burnet roses and, to give it its common name, bloody cranesbill, amongst others. Dunstanburgh Castle stands at the southern end of Embleton Bay. Close by to the south is the pretty fishing village of Craster.

Embleton has an attractive little main street with one shop. There is a small well-kept green with the village pump on it, out of use now but at one time the source of the water supply. The church is large with several interesting features and is historically connected with Merton College, Oxford. Close by is a pele tower - part of what was, until 1974, a fortified vicarage. On the retirement of the then vicar, the Reverend Peter Karney, who was the son of the first bishop of Johannesburg the Right Reverend Arthur Bailey Lumsdaine Karney - the tower passed into private hands and a new vicarage was built nearby. In the vicarage field there is an ancient dovecote. The village hall, the Creighton Memorial Hall, is said to be the largest in the county and is named after a former vicar who became a famous Bishop of London. The hall is the venue for a lot of the social life which goes on there. One road is named after the Embleton-born W. T. Stead, a journalist and social campaigner who lost his life on the RMS Titanic.

Article adapted from the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.

How to get to Embleton:
By road: Take the main A1 trunk road north from Newcastle upon Tyne, to Alnwick. Take the Alnwick exit and follow the road towards Alnwick town centre. From the town centre take the B1340 towards Seahouses and the coast. Embleton is about 8 miles north east of Alnwick.
By rail: The nearest station is Alnmouth.
By bus: Arriva Northumbria service 501 goes from the Haymarket Bus Station in Newcastle via Alnwick to Embleton. In the reverse direction, the 501 goes from Berwick via the coast to Embleton. During the summer months the Coastal Clipper service runs between Bamburgh and Amble, via Embleton.

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