 The name Ewshot comes from Old English and means "corner or angle of land where yew trees grow".Ewshot consists of Ewshot Village proper, a later development known as Ewshot Heights plus the outlying hamlets of Beacon Hill, Warren, Doras Green and a newer estate of large houses originally called Marlborough Hill at the top of Beacon Hill towards Farnham.Ewshot forms part of the Hundred of Crondall, which has origins dating back to the Domesday Book.