In more recent times, in 1972, the village and a considerable amount of surrounding land were declared a Conservation Area.
Some time between 1217 and 1226, Richard Marsh, the Bishop of Durham, gave the tithes of Eglingham to the Abbey of St Albans to help the monks make a better ale, "taking compassion on the weakness of the convent's drink", according to an eighteenth-century historian [REF].