Editing Ordsall Hall (section)

==Guy Fawkes==
[[File:GuyFawkesStreet.jpg|thumb|right|Guy Fawkes Street runs down the eastern side of the hall.]]
[[Harrison Ainsworth]], in his 1842 novel ''[[Guy Fawkes (novel)|Guy Fawkes]]'', wrote about the local story that the [[Gunpowder Plot]] of 1605 was planned by [[Guy Fawkes]] and [[Robert Catesby]] in Ordsall Hall's Star Chamber. Fawkes is supposed to have escaped capture by the King's soldiers by way of a tunnel from Ordsall Hall to an inn at the cathedral end of Hanging Bridge, at the northern end of present-day Deansgate. There is no firm supporting evidence, but the Radclyffes were prominent [[Roman Catholics]] and were acquainted with the Catesby family. The legend is remembered in the name of the modern road that runs to the east of the hall, Guy Fawkes Street.{{sfnp|Cooper|2003|p=102|ps=none}}