[4] In 1590, victims of the plague were buried in a pit in Hart Hill Meadow, which had been bought by the local authorities.

[1][2] Hart Hill is one of the areas that makes up the modern park, and is found near the junction of Eccles Old Road and Weaste Lane.

[5] John Potter also took on a farm at Wighill then rented another one at Wingate Hill from Sir Walter Vavasour.

Thomas and Richard Potter formed a small band of free traders and reformers which lasted for more than a quarter of a century.

They used to meet in Thomas and Richard's "plotting parlour" situated at the back of their Cannon Street warehouse.

His widow, Lady Potter, née Esther Bayley, continued to live at Buile Hill until her death there on 19 June 1852.

In 1877, Thomas Bayley Potter sold Buile Hill to John Marsland Bennett, timber merchant and local landowner, who had been Mayor of Manchester from 1863-1865.

Planning permission was granted to John Wilkinson to turn it into a country hotel in 2008, which received negative feedback from locals and heritage groups.

Lowry, a local rent collector, and author Frances Hodgson Burnett who wrote her classic children's novel The Secret Garden during one of her many visits to the estate house.