sentences:  In 1966 the current Sir Richard Brooke gave Norton Priory in trust for the benefit of the public.In 1971 J. Patrick Greene was given a contract to carry out a six-month excavation for Runcorn Development Corporation as part of a plan to develop a park in the centre of Runcorn New Town.The site consisted of a area of fields and woods to the north of the Bridgewater Canal.