Embleton Bay

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The beach has a whinstone reefs and the sand is a ruddy gold color. At its southern end, a castle is situated on a black cliff promontory. A little trout stream, known as the Embleton Burn, begins in the inland moors, makes its way through an area of the old barony, woody denes, and channels, before reaching the centre of the bay.{{cite book|last=Bradley|first=Arthur Granville|title=The romance of Northumberland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-gGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA45|accessdate=23 October 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1908|publisher=Methuen and co.|pages=45–}} The coast from Newton Seahouses to Dunstanburgh Point is made up of sandhills. Located on the North Sea, the bay is a good stopping place in offshore winds, and is formed by the points known as Out Car and Emblestone to the north and Dunstanburgh Point to the south.

The anchorage is in {{convert|6|to|8|fathom|m}}. There is good holding ground, with Heifer Bank Tower and trees in line with Dunstanstead, at a bearing of 232°; and Beadnell Church Spire, open to the east of Newton Point, at a bearing of 335°.{{cite book|author=United States. Hydrographic Office|title=British Islands pilot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aUuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA151|accessdate=23 October 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1915|publisher=Govt. print. off.|pages=151–}} There is a dramatic boulder field.{{cite book|last=Frost|first=Lee|title=Lee Frost's Landscape Photography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0w3smi-nLG0C&pg=PA42|accessdate=29 October 2011|date=17 July 2007|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=978-0-7153-2564-3|pages=42–}}

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In the 1830s, a sandstone rock was discovered near the low tide mark on the Embleton sea shore. Carved on the rock in Roman capitals were the words, "ANDRA BARTON".{{cite book|last=Tate|first=George|title=The history of the borough, castle, and barony of Alnwick|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_voYHAAAAQAAJ|accessdate=25 October 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1866|publisher=H.H. Blair|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_voYHAAAAQAAJ/page/n222 204]–}} "Andra", or Sir "Andrew" Barton, a Scottish sea captain and "fearless freebooter",{{cite book|last=Terry|first=Jean F.|title=Northumberland Yesterday and Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5Ssndo59dkC&pg=PA14|accessdate=25 October 2011|date=25 September 2006|publisher=Echo Library|isbn=978-1-4068-0851-3|pages=14–}} was a mariner in James IV, King of Scots' navy.

Flora in the dunes area include bloody crane's-bill, potentilla, eye bright, bedstraw, spring squill, wild thyme, and wild vetch, . Some of the bay's cliffs are a seabird site frequented by breeding eider ducks, fulmars, kittiwake, and shags.{{cite book|last1=Walters|first1=Martin|last2=Gibbons|first2=Bob|title=Britain|url=https://archive.org/details/britain00walt|url-access=registration|accessdate=29 October 2011|date=April 2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-850433-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/britain00walt/page/79 79]–}} There is an occurrence of Atelecyclus rotundatus within the bay.{{cite book|author=Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland).|title=History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, instituted September 22, 1831|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hv8XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130|accessdate=29 October 2011|year=1857|publisher=The Club|pages=130–}}

• {{source-attribution|A. G. Bradley's The Romance of Northumberland (1908).}}
• {{source-attribution|United States Hydrographic Office's British Islands Pilot (1915).}}
• {{source-attribution|G. Tate's The History of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alnwick (1866).}}
• {{source-attribution| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club's History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, instituted September 22, 1831 (1857).}}

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