Eslington Park

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Eslington Park is privately owned 18th century mansion house near Whittingham, Northumberland and the family seat of Lord Ravensworth. It is a Grade II* listed building[1].

There was a tower house at Eslington in 1415 in the ownership of Thomas Hesilrige[2]. A survey of 1541 reported that the house, in the ownership of Hesilrige but occupied by Robert Collingwood, was in 'good reparation'.[2]

George Collingwood was attainted for his treasonable part in the Jacobite uprising of 1715.[3]. His estate at Eslington was sequestered and sold by the Crown to George Liddell, great uncle of Thomas Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth[3]

Liddell built a new two storey nine bay mansion house on the site in about 1720 which was extended in 1796.[1]


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Alnwick DC Listed building description
  2. ^ a b Gatehouse Gazetteer
  3. ^ a b History Topography and Directory of Northumberland William Whellan (1855) p668 Google Books