Eslington Park

Eslington Park

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 [http://www.alnwick.gov.uk/supporting/released/2007-2/8162/WHITTINGHAM.pdf Alnwick DC Listed building description] ] .

There was a tower house at Eslington in 1415 in the ownership of Thomas Hesilrige [http://www.ecastles.co.uk/philipdavis/English%20sites/2888.html Gatehouse Gazetteer] ] . A survey of 1541 reported that the house, in the ownership of Hesilrige but occupied by Robert Collingwood, was in 'good reparation'.

George Collingwood was attainted for his treasonable part in the Jacobite uprising of 1715."History Topography and Directory of Northumberland" William Whellan (1855) p668 Google Books] . His estate at Eslington was sequestered and sold by the Crown to George Liddell, great uncle of Thomas Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth

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

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