Äskhults by, Open-air museum in Förlanda socken, Kungsbacka Municipality, Sweden.

Äskhults by is a preserved village of four farms and eleven buildings from the 17th to 19th centuries, arranged around a small 18th-century village square on a wooded hill in Förlanda socken, Kungsbacka kommun. The farms kept their original plots through the enclosures of 1825 and 1864, so the houses were never moved.

Äskhult is first recorded in 1592 as Eskholt, and its eleven buildings date from the 1600s and 1700s around a small 18th-century village square. The farms went through storskifte in 1825 and laga skifte in 1864 without being split or moved. The last resident, Gottfrid Pettersson of Derras farm, died in 1964; the village became a building monument in 1981 and a cultural reserve in 2004.

The name Äskhult appears in records from 1592 as Eskholt. Farm names recall people: Bengts after riksdagsman Bengt Pehrson, Jönsas after generations of Jöns-söner, Göttas after Gödatorp in Gällinge, bought in 1755. Derras comes from the word for "the neighbour". The last resident, Gottfrid Pettersson, lived at Derras until his death in 1964.

Äskhult lies in Förlanda socken, Kungsbacka kommun, on the crest of a wooded hill; the four farms and eleven buildings stand around a small 18th-century village square. The site is owned and managed by Västkuststiftelsen as a kulturreservat, with paths through the cultural landscape. The houses have neither electricity nor running water.

The village kept its four farms on their original plots through the storskifte of 1825 and the laga skifte of 1864, so no farmhouse was ever moved. The name appears in 1592 as Eskholt. The last resident, Gottfrid Pettersson of Derras farm, died in 1964.