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Eshott is a small hamlet in Northumberland, sitting a few miles south of Felton and around seven miles north of Morpeth, with a population of only a few dozen. It is an old settlement recorded from the medieval period, when Eshott Castle — a fortified tower house licensed in 1310 — stood here as one of the many defensive structures built across Northumberland during the centuries of Border warfare. Fragments of the castle survive within the grounds of Eshott Hall.
Eshott Hall is the hamlet's principal building, a handsome Georgian country house of around 1730 built for the Sanderson family, now operating as a country house hotel. It stands in mature parkland with walled gardens, and the surrounding estate has shaped the settlement — most of the buildings here are estate cottages, farm properties and the former home farm, set among the woodlands and arable fields of the Northumberland coastal plain.
The hamlet's other feature is Eshott Airfield. Built as RAF Eshott in 1942, it operated as a fighter training station during the Second World War, with Spitfires flown from here by pilots preparing for operational squadrons. The site returned to agriculture after the war but was revived as a general aviation airfield, and Eshott Airfield now operates as an active light aviation and flight training base with a hard runway — one of the busiest small airfields in the north-east.
Eshott sits just off the A1, giving quick road links north to Alnwick and Berwick and south to Morpeth and Newcastle, around 25 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. The nearest stations are at Morpeth and Alnmouth on the East Coast Main Line. The Northumberland coast at Druridge Bay and Amble is a short drive east, and the Cheviots and Northumberland National Park lie inland to the west. Neighbouring communities include Felton, Longframlington, Ulgham, Widdrington, Guyzance and Bockenfield.
Housing in Eshott is almost entirely traditional and estate-related, consisting of stone cottages and terraces, farmhouses and steadings — a number of them converted — along with the Hall itself and a small amount of later infill. Several buildings are listed, and development has been minimal, so the hamlet retains its historic estate character. The wider area is working agricultural land, and property here is sought after for its rural setting within easy reach of the A1 and the Northumberland coast.






