EMBLETON, a chapelry in the parish of BRIGHAM,
ALLERDALE, ward above Darwent, county of
CUMBERLAND, 8 miles (E. by S.) from Cockermouth,
containing 391 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in -the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese
of Chester, and in the patronage of the Earl of Lonsdale.
The chapol, dedicated to St. Cuthbert, is a neat edifice,
rebuilt in 181.6.