Embleton, County Durham

Embleton is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sedgefield, in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, in England, as well as the site of a medieval village and manor.[1] It is situated 3 miles (5 km) east of Sedgefield[2] and 4 miles (6 km) west of Hartlepool. In 1961 the parish had a population of 80.[3] The township was historically named "Elmdene", supposedly derived from the site's proximity to a woodland of elm trees which, at an earlier time, flourished in the bordering dene. A single farmstead now occupies the site which lies adjacent to the ruins of a small church (originally a manorial chapel of ease) dedicated to the Virgin Mary.[2]

Embleton
The ruined church in Embleton
Embleton is located in County Durham
Embleton
Embleton
Location within County Durham
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom

From the 13th to the mid 16th century the manor was the seat of the Elmeden family who assumed the local name.[1] The village was one of nearly 1,500 medieval villages to be abandoned in the 14th century after the collapse of the demesne system of land management.[4] It afterwards passed in the female line to the Bulmers and Smythes and in the 18th century to the Tempests of Wynyard, ancestors of the Marquesses of Londonderry.[5]

Embleton Tower is a Grade I listed Peel tower in the village, which previously incorporated the vicarage.

Civil parish

Embleton was formerly a township in the parish of Sedgefield,[6] from 1866 Embleton was a civil parish in its own right,[7] on 1 April 1983 the parish was abolished and merged with Sedgefield.[8]

References
  1. Mackenzie, Eneas; Ross, Marvin (1834), An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the county palatine of Durham, Volume 1, Mackenzie and Dent, p. 441
  2. Whellan (1856), History, topography, and directory of the county palatine of Durham, Whittaker and co., p. 520
  3. "Population statistics Embleton Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  4. Hodgett, Gerald, (2006) A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe, Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-37707-2, p.206.
  5. Robert Surtees, History of Durham, Vol.III, p.53
  6. "History of Embleton, in Sedgefield and County Durham". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  7. "Relationships and changes Embleton Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  8. "Durham Western Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 7 August 2023.

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