Month: May 2021

Cricket Club Update

Match reports: On the 24th May the u15s entertained Oxenhope u15s in the second round of the Raleigh Hargreaves Memorial Cup and saw them off by 60 runs. We batted first and made […]

Embsay Primary School help to keep our Hedgehogs safe

Primary School Hedgehog Safety Project The year 2 children at Embsay Primary School have been learning how to keep hedgehogs safe. You may have seen some of our posters dotted around the […]

About Embsay-with-Eastby Community Library

Although there had been a library in Embsay for many years before, Embsay-with-Eastby Community Library opened in its current guise in July 2012. The former library was wholly funded and staffed by […]

New Beginnings

New Beginnings – New Parents’ Group Every Wednesday from 9am to 11am in Embsay with Eastby Village Institute. Drop in for a drink, cake and chat with your little ones. Toys, baby […]

Embsay Cricket Club

Cricket has become something of a rarity at Shires Lane thanks to the weather. The 2nd XI was due to entertain Cowling II on Saturday 22nd May but the game was called off because […]

The Elm Tree Inn – Inquests, Auctions, Tar-barrels and Club-rooms

 The Elm Tree Inn has long been at the heart of life in Embsay, not only geographically, but also in terms of village life.  In the 18th and 19th centuries it was […]

Embsay with Eastby Village Institute Annual Report

Annual Report of the Management Committee for Year 2020 REGISTERED CHARITY NO 523596 The Village Hall is a charity registered with the Charity Commission under its original title, “The Embsay with Eastby […]

Towards Carbon Neutral Churches in Craven

St Mary’s Embsay with Eastby is leading a group of five churches in Craven which are looking into ways to become net carbon zero. This is in line with the commitment made […]

Embsay Priory and the early history of Embsay

When studying the earliest history of Embsay there are not many facts to go on. We know that people lived in the area in the Bronze Age (2500-800BC) because a bronze neck […]

The Night Sky

May 2021 Over the past year or so, if you looked up into the night sky on a dark Embsay evening you may have been able to shake off for a moment […]