Withington, Lancashire
Historical Description
Withington, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Manchester parish, Lancashire. The township lies partly within the county borough of Manchester, 4 miles S of Manchester, has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, a station on the M.R., and includes Fallowfield, Ashfield, and Hougheud. Acreage, 2484; population, 14,213. There are numerous villas and other good residences. The Lancashire Independent College has been noticed in our article on HULME. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1841. Population, 5813. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £400 with residence. The church was built in 1841. There are several chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Manchester | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Chorlton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Withington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Withington)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Withington are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: