Embsay
North Yorkshire
Part of the village is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Embsay Crag, high above the village, provides commanding views across Embsay, Skipton and the edges of the National Park.
On the hillside below the Crag is Embsay Reservoir which, as well as collecting water, provides an attractive facility for local walks, anglers and sailing enthusiasts.
Embsay has several historic buildings, ranging from farm houses of the 17th and 18th centuries to relics of a varied past industry in the village. The Crown Spindle Works, high above the village, originally produced spindles for the textile industry, but was taken over by The Crown during the Crimean War, between 1853 and 1856, to produce bayonets. Primrose Mill was by the early 1900s being used for tobacco before later becoming the location of the Embsay Tannery, but has now been mostly redeveloped for new houses. Millholme Mills was involved in woollen textiles and is now being redeveloped as Embsay Mill, providing business space for companies including a craft fabric company, auctioneer and gym.
While much of the village's industrial past has been redeveloped, industry continues in the Embsay area at the Skipton Quarry which provides crushed rock and ballast for road building and railways.
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Travel
Bus travel
The village has buses connecting to the town centre. of Skipton.
Embsay
Embsay has a station on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, one of Yorkshire's heritage railways. See 'Places to visit' below.
Places to visit
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Much of the Craven district is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The National Park offers mountain peaks, beautiful river valleys, attractive villages with country inns, ruined
Malham
Malham is a small village in a hill farming community in the Yorkshire Dales National Park which has for many years attracted tourists, walkers and geographers as the location of some of the country's most magnificent limestone scenery. Find out more about
Bolton Priory
Bolton Abbey, North YorkshireThe beautiful setting at Bolton Abbey in the
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Skipton Castle
Skipton Castle is one of England's best restored medieval castles, standing between the town of
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Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
Operates from Embsay, about 1.5 miles from Skipton, to Bolton Abbey station about a mile away from the attractive priory ruins and beauty spot beside the River Wharfe at Bolton Abbey. The railway runs trains on most days during the summer and at weekends at other times of year, except January. It also has a range of special weekend events, dining trains and footplate and signal box experience courses. Tank engines are the mainstay of steam operations on the line, but the railway also has a collection of historic diesel locomotives. Also running on the line some days is a restored hybrid electric railcar, which was way ahead of its time when built in York in 1903.
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Ingleborough Cave
Near Clapham
This show cave about a 1-mile walk from the centre of Clapham village is one of the natural wonders of the Yorkshire Dales which has been attracting visitors over a period of 180 years. Underground tours along concrete paths in floodlit passages reveal a world of stalactites and stalagmites. The cave is open daily from mid-February to the end of October. Not to be missed if visiting the cave is Trow Gill, a short walk further up the valley from the cave entrance. The spectacular ravine was carved by the melt waters of the ice age. More information at the

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Kilnsey Park
Kilnsey Park Estate, off B6160 at The scenic Kilnsey Park Estate has a cafe, local produce shop and an activity centre centred around its trout farm, offering fly fishing and family fun fishing lakes. It also offers an insight into nature through its trout raceways, reserve of wildflowers, red squirrel enclosure, butterfly gardens and bee observation hive and has farm animals and children's play areas.
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Stump Cross Caverns
On B6265 Hebden Road, near Greenhow Hill
Situated around 5 miles west-south-west of Pateley Bridge, Stump Cross Caverns are show caves with some impressive stalactites and stalagmites among the limestone features reached by steps leading beneath the ground. A cafe with fine views across the nearby hills is also situated at the show cave entrance. Find on map:
Stump Cross Caverns

Emergency services
North Yorkshire Police 
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Local government
Civil parish council
Embsay with Eastby Parish CouncilProvides some local services in the area.
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District authority Abolished
Craven District Council ceased from April 1, 2023. From 1974 it was a shire district covering more than 450 square miles of the western area of North Yorkshire with its administrative centre in
The North Yorkshire Council unitary authority takes over services previously operated by Craven District Council. These included local planning, waste collection, street cleaning, parks and car parks, housing and markets.
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Unitary authority New
The North Yorkshire Council is a new unitary authority formed from the previous County Council from April 1, 2023. It covers the existing county duties including highways, schools, libraries and transport planning over an area of around 3,085 square miles while also taking over the responsibilities of the seven huge district authorities also created in 1974 — Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby — these including local planning, waste collection, street cleaning, parks and car parks, housing and markets.
Councillors were elected to the County Council in 2022 and continue as councillors of the new North Yorkshire Council unitary authority. In that election, the Conservatives gained a slim majority gaining 47 of the 90 seats.
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Political composition:
NY Ind = North Yorkshire Independents group E = By-election in Eastfield division pending on May 25, 2023.
Composition and groupings as at May 4, 2023
County authority Abolished
North Yorkshire County CouncilNorth Yorkshire County Council was a shire county authority which existed between 1974 and April 1, 2023, covering duties including highways, schools, libraries and transport planning. It was transformed into the North Yorkshire Council unitary authority on April 1, 2023, while the seven huge district authorities within — Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby — were also abolished.
Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner North YorkshireCovers the county of

