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Eslington Park
Eslington Park shown within Northumberland |
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| OS grid reference | NU039119 |
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| List of places: UK • England • Northumberland | |
Eslington Park is a privately owned 18th-century mansion house west of 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]