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

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

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…