Embsay Priory

Embsay Priory was a medieval monastic house in North Yorkshire, England. The priory was founded in 1120 in Embsay at Wharfedale. It was dedicated to St Mary and St Cuthbert and was part of the Augustinian order.

Type: House
Description: medieval monastic house in North Yorkshire, England
Also known as: “Embsay Kirk”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Embsay with Eastby and Embsay railway station.

St Mary’s Church, Embsay with Eastby

Church

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St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in Embsay with Eastby, a parish in North Yorkshire, in England. Embsay Priory was founded in 1120. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a chapel was maintained for worship for many years, but eventually closed. St Mary’s Church, Embsay with Eastby is situated 810 feet south of Embsay Priory.

Embsay railway station

Railway station

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Embsay railway station is a railway station on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. It serves the small village of Embsay in North Yorkshire, England. The station is a terminus on the railway and was re-opened in 1981. Embsay railway station is situated 3,800 feet south of Embsay Priory.

Embsay Reservoir

Reservoir

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Embsay Reservoir is located above the village of Embsay, near Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Yorkshire Water, and supplies water to the north and west of Skipton, feeding 25,000 homes. It has a dam height of 24 m.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Embsay and Halton East.

Embsay

Village

Photo: John Winterbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Embsay is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is paired with the neighbouring hamlet of Eastby to form the civil parish of Embsay with Eastby.

Halton East

Village

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Halton East is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, 3.5 miles east of Skipton. The population of the parish was estimated at 90 in 2015. Halton East is situated 2 miles east of Embsay Priory.

Skipton

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Skipton is a market town in North Yorkshire, with a population of 15,000 in 2021. It has a sturdy castle and scenic canal; it's within a short travel time of the Leeds-Bradford conurbation and is on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales, so it's a popular day-trip destination.

Embsay Priory

Categories: priory, building, historic site, historic building, and residential building
Location: Embsay with Eastby, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.98503° or 53° 59′ 6″ north

Longitude

-1.98498° or 1° 59′ 6″ west

Inception

1780

Open location code

9C5WX2P8+22

OpenStreetMap ID

way 550438762

OpenStreetMap feature

building=detached

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

Wikidata ID

Q5370256

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