Village in North Yorkshire, England

Embsay

Embsay is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

Plan a trip to Embsay→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Embsay
57 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £7–9
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Liverpool → Embsay
90 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–13
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Embsay
113 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £14–19
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Embsay, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Embsay has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 25 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Keighley, 13 km.

53.980°, -1.986°

It is paired with the neighbouring hamlet of Eastby to form the civil parish of Embsay with Eastby. The parish population as of the 2011 census was 1,871.

How locals move

Getting around Embsay the local way

Get inOn Sunday May-Sep it connects with a minibus to Buckden and Hawes.

From Wikivoyage: Grassington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: The Basingstoker (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.