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Greater Manchester's lost mansion worth £10million that hosted royalty and had magnificent gardens and a boating lake

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It was a thing of beauty. Built over five years at a cost of £100,000 - the equivalent of £9.7m today, the Elizabethan and Gothic style mansion was faced with pink-red Hollington Stone from a quarry on Staffordshire moorlands.

Set in magnificent gardens with a huge lake it was three storeys high with a family wing and one for servants. In its heyday it hosted royalty, leading political figures, and captains of industry.

Yet in an odd twist, tons of its demolished stonework would later end up being used to build council houses. READ MORE: The Greater Manchester walk that's ‘lovely on a crisp winter’s day’ Worsley New Hall was constructed between 1839 and 1845 by architect and landscape gardener Edward Blore, and was one of the homes of Francis Egerton, The 1st Earl of Ellesmere.

Queen Victoria visited the mansion twice. The first time was in 1851 when she was accompanied by one of Britain's greatest military commanders, the 1st Duke of Wellington - whose tactics secured victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

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