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Withington is a district of the City Of Manchester , in North West , England . It lies about four miles south of Manchester City Centre , intersected by the busy thoroughfare of Wilmslow Road . It lies between Fallowfield and Didsbury , to the north and south respectively. Withington was largely rural until the mid-19th century, after which it gradually became urbanised due to Manchester's growing level of industrialisation. GEOGRAPHY AND ADMINISTRATION Withington is also the name of a local government ward within the City of Manchester Manchester Withington is a Parliamentary Constituency which encompasses Withington Village. John Leech is the Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington. HISTORY Medieval period The first recorded description of Withington dates from 1186 , calling the area a willow-copse farmstead, and giving rise to the Anglo-Saxon name ''Wīðign-tūn'', with withy meaning "willow branch used for bundling".1 In the early 13th Century , the Manor of Withington covered a wide area including Withington, Didsbury , Chorlton-cum-Hardy , Moss Side , Rusholme , Burnage , Denton and Haughton . The first Lord of the Manor of Withington is thought to have been William, son of Wulfrith de Withington.2 Withington was one of the Townships of the Ancient Parish Of Manchester in the Salford Hundred of Lancashire, and a sub-manor of the Manor of Manchester. In the 13th century, Robert Grelle (or Grelley), Lord of the Manchester Manor, granted Free Warren in Withington to Matthew de Hathersage (or Haversage), son of William, in exchange for one Knight's Fee . Little is known of the Hathersage family, except that they descended to the Longford family, and are connected with the manors of Hathersage and Longford , both in Derbyshire. The lordship of Withington remained in the Hathersage/Longford family for over 300 years. The Tudor Period At the end of the 16th Century , Nicholas Longford sold Withington to the Mosley (originally Moseley) family, an influential family of wool merchants. Nicholas Mosley became Lord of the Manor of Manchester and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I . |
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