Potternewton

Potternewton is a suburb and parish of north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, situated between Chapeltown and Chapel Allerton (in whose ward the area falls), mainly in the LS7 postcode and partly in LS8. It is between Scott Hall Road on the west and Roundhay Road on the east, with Harehills Lane on the north. The main thoroughfare is Chapeltown Road, and it is often taken to be part of a larger area referred to as Chapeltown. On some maps Potternewton included the Chapeltown and Scott Hall areas and partly Harehills.

There is overlap between the areas referred to as Chapeltown and Potternewton so that they can be two names for the same area. Potternewton is an historic village and most maps prioritise the name Potternewton over Chapeltown, but most residents of Leeds today refer to the area as Chapeltown.

Both the Earl of Mexborough and Earl Cowper had released some of their land by the 1700s and by the early 19th century a number of mansions, some with extensive acreage, had been established around Potternewton and Chapeltown roads. Potternewton Park Mansion, Newton Lodge, Scott Hall and Potternewton Hall are typical examples.

The Hall was a grand c.1720 manor house which had been built by the Barker family. By the mid 19th century it was owned by the Lupton family, who also owned Newton Hall and the surrounding Newton Park. Wool merchants; brothers Darnton, Arthur and Francis Lupton, had worked to develop the immediate land around these mansions and were planning subdivisions on the family estate as early as the 1850s. Both Francis and Darnton had lived at Potternewton Hall. Darnton, mayor of Leeds in 1844, was living there with his family from the 1830s. Francis – Darnton's younger brother and business partner – had become the owner of Potternewton Hall by 1860. Francis had married in 1847, and raised his family at Potternewton Hall, including his eldest son, Francis Martineau, until the early 1860s. In 1870, the two brothers purchased together the adjacent Newton Hall Estate from their brother, Arthur Lupton (1809–1889) who was also a cloth merchant. Arthur had owned the Newton Hall Estate since the 1840s. By 1880, a number of substantial buildings had been erected on the Lupton estate, including St Martins Church. By the outbreak of the Second World War, both Newton Hall and Potternewton Hall had been demolished to make way for Leeds' largest private housing estate.

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