EMBORROW (IN-AND-OUT), a parish in the hundred of CHEWTON, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (N.E.) from Wells, containing, with the-tything of Whitnell, 250 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Chewton-Mendip, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. By the road side is a lake covering about ten acres, with a thick wood behind, and some pleasant walks, the whole presenting a very agreeable appearance. There were formerly mines of coal and lapis calaminaris, the working of which has been discontinued between forty and fifty years.