Eshott is a village and former
civil parish
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, now in the parish of
Thirston, in
Northumberland
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, England. In 1951 the parish had a population of 114.
It is located north of
Newcastle upon Tyne
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, midway between
Morpeth and
Alnwick
Alnwick ( ) is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116.
The town is south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish border, inland from the North Sea ...
. A small former
RAF aerodrome,
Eshott Airfield, is located there.
The nearby
Eshott Hall is a listed country house hotel.
Governance
Eshott was formerly a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in
Felton parish, from 1866 Eshott was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 to form Thirston.
References
External links
Eshott Village Residents website
Villages in Northumberland
Former civil parishes in Northumberland
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