Potternewton
Potternewton also Potter Newton is a suburb and
Potternewton is bounded by Scott Hall Road to the west, Roundhay Road to the east and Harehills Lane to the north. The main thoroughfare is Chapeltown Road. The suburb is often considered to be part of Chapeltown. On older maps, Potternewton included the Chapeltown and Scott Hall areas and parts of Harehills. Potternewton is an historic village and many older maps prioritise its name over Chapeltown.[1]
Etymology
The name is attested in the twelfth century as Neuton and Neuthon. The name is from the Old English nīwe meaning new and tūn a farmstead or estate. The name appears with the addition of 'potter' in the thirteenth century, as Pottersneuton, Neuton Potter, Potterneuton and Potter Newton because a pottery industry had developed to distinguish it from many other villages called Newton in the country.[2]
Potternewton once included Allerton Gledhow. The name Allerton comes from the
History
Potternewton was the site of pottery manufacture in the Roman period.[2] Over time the manor belonged to the Mauleverers, the Scotts of Scott Hall, the Hardwicks and in 1870 belonged to the Earl of Mexborough.[4]
The Earl of Mexborough and Earl Cowper sold parts of their estates in the 1700s and litigated until the early 1800s as to who legally owned the land. Around this time James Brown owned much of the area that became known as Chapeltown.[5][6][7]
In "the first year of the sixteenth century" the Low Hall or Newton Hall estate was worth 300 pounds a year.[8] In the 18th century, the Barker/Ray family owned Newton Hall (Low Hall) which Ralph Thoresby described as a "venerable old fabric" and built Potternewton Hall, the "upper house", for the widow, Mrs Barker, to retire to in the 1730s.[9]
By the early 19th century a number of mansions, some with extensive grounds, had been built around the Potternewton and Chapeltown roads: The Scott family owned the mid-18th century
Potternewton Lodge, Newton Green Hall, Potternewton Hall and Newton Hall were owned by the
Potternewton Hall was the residence of Darnton Lupton.[16] Another Lupton brother, Francis, lived at Potternewton Hall from 1847 and had purchased the freehold of the estate by 1860. In 1870, Francis and Darnton Lupton purchased the Newton Hall estate from their brother.[17][18]
In the 1870s, the Potternewton township, covering 1,667 acres about two miles north of Leeds, comprised the villages of New Leeds, part of Buslingthorpe and the hamlets of Gipton, Harehills, and Squire-Pastures.
By the outbreak of the Second World War, Newton Hall and Potternewton Hall had been demolished and the city's largest private housing estate was built on their surrounding land.[19][20]
Francis Lupton's son,
Churches and chapels
Arthur Lupton supported building the old Potternewton
St Martin's Church, the
Katherine Roubiliac Conder's diaries record her father, Eustace Conder, preaching at Newton Park Chapel in 1874.
21st century
Transport Direct uses the names Potternewton and Chapeltown for separate areas. Potternewton is the small area around the north of Scott Hall Road around the Scott Hall Road/Potternewton Lane roundabout as most of the area is classified today as Chapeltown. West Yorkshire Metro and Transport Direct also identify the area as being in this location. Potternewton Lane is served by bus service 7.
Mill Field Primary Academy, formerly known as Potternewton Primary School, is on Potternewton Mount. The school converted to academy status on 1 December 2020.[37]
People of Potternewton
- Sir Charles Holroyd (1861–1917) Artist and museum curator[38]
- Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton
- Lupton family
See also
References
- ^ Godfrey, A. (8 August 2017). "Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Leeds". Consett, Co Durham: Alan Godfrey Maps.
- ^ a b Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 82.
- ^ Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 73.
- ^ "Potter Newton West Riding". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ISBN 9781351171182. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ISBN 9780861810017. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Thomas Vernon, John Raithby (1828). "Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery". J. Butterworth and Son. p. 651. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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- ^ Barker, E. (1821). "The Will of M. A. M. Faber, with Facts and Observations Proving Its ..." Edmund Henry Barker 1821. pp. 24–28. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- ^ "Scott Hall – SALE". The Houseshop. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Potternewton Park Mansion, Harehills Lane". Leodis – A photographic history of Leeds. UK Gov Leeds City Council. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ISBN 9781108058407. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ^ Treen, Colin (2018). The Thoresby Society – The Society's Archives (Sales Particulars) (Report). The Thoresby Society.
- ^ "Sale – The Newton Hall Estate – Containing about 50 acres". Leeds Intelligencer. 16 June 1866. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
- ^ "NEW BAPTIST AND CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHURCH IN LEEDS". Leeds Mercury. 8 October 1887. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ The Poll Book of the Leeds Borough Election, July, 1837. R. Perring. 1837. p. 28.
- ^ Laycock, Mike (17 March 2015). "Duchess of Cambridge's links with stately home near York revealed". The Press. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ "Chapeltown Conservation Area Appraisal" (PDF). Leeds City Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
- ^ "Potternewton, entrance gates". Leodis – A photographic History of Leeds. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
- ^ "Potternewton Hall, Potternewton Lane". Leodis – A photographic history of Leeds. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ^ "Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds: Rockland; home of Francis Martineau Lupton and daughter Olive Middleton". Leeds City Council. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Leodis". Leodis – A photographic archive of Leeds. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ISBN 9781904497103. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ Mayhall, J. (1848). "The Annals of Yorkshire: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 3". Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 440. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Martin, St Martin's View – Potternewton (1256154)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ^ Conservation Area Appraisal, Chapeltown. "Chapeltown Conservation Area Appraisal" (PDF). UK GOV. Leeds City Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ^ "St. Martin's Church". Leodis – a photographic archive of Leeds. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ Historic England. "St Martin's Church, St Martin's View, Potternewton (1256154)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ Spark, W. (1892). Musical Reminiscences: Past and Present. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ "History". St Martin's Church, Leeds. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ "St Martin's Church, Chapeltown Road". Leodis – a photographic archive of Leeds. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
- ^ Broadbent, Helen. "Church Archives, St Martins Church". St Martins Church, Potternewton. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ISBN 9780853239352. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ "NEW BAPTIST AND CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHURCH IN LEEDS". Leeds Mercury. Yorkshire, England. 8 October 1887. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ Jenkins, D. T. (2004). "Barran family (per. c.1842–1952)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 November 2007.
- ^ "Leodis – A photographic archive of Leeds". Leodis – A photographic archive of Leeds. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ^ Mill Field Primary Academy, accessed 19 January 2021
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33961. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
External links
- The ancient parish of Leeds: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI (Potternewton was in this parish).
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