EMBSAY, a township, joint with Eastby, in that part of the parish of SKIPTON which is in the eastern division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-AND-EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles (N.E. by N.) from Skipton, containing 861 inhabitants. William de Meschines, and Cecilia de Romili, his wife, founded a monastery here in 1120, for canons regular,of the order of St. Augustine, which about thirty years after was translated, by their daughter Adeliza, to Bolton in. Craven: a chapel was continued long after its translation. There is a spring in the township still bearing the name of St. Cuthbert's well.