24 Facts About Wythenshawe

Wythenshawe is a district of the city of Manchester, England.

Historically in Cheshire, Wythenshawe was transferred in 1931 to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a massive housing estate there in the 1920s.

Wythenshawe includes the estates of Baguley, Benchill, Brooklands, Peel Hall, Newall Green, Woodhouse Park, Moss Nook, Northern Moor, Northenden and Sharston.

Name of Wythenshawe seems to come from the Old English wiðign = "withy tree" and sceaga = "wood".

Immediately south of Wythenshawe is Manchester Airport, formerly called Ringway Airport.

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Wythenshawe was in the Church of England Diocese of Chester until 1933, when it was transferred to the neighbouring Diocese of Manchester.

Wythenshawe is Manchester's largest district, a massive housing estate that was started in the 1920s intended as a "garden city" where people could be rehoused away from industrial Manchester.

However, it took decades for some areas of Wythenshawe to get their own neighbourhood shops, which meant residents had to travel or visit a mobile shop van when it visited their area.

Wythenshawe gradually acquired all the amenities and facilities that the original planners had neglected to include with the building of several new schools, shops, pubs and churches.

The area got its own hospital, and Wythenshawe Hospital grew out of the earlier Baguley Hospital in 1948.

In 1971, the Wythenshawe Forum was opened there, which included a library, a swimming pool, a restaurant, a bar and a theatre.

In 2007, The New York Times described the housing estates in Wythenshawe as representing an "extreme pocket of social deprivation and alienation".

Wythenshawe has twelve parks and 18 woodland areas including Wythenshawe Park, which was designated a Local Nature Reserve in 2011.

Manchester Wythenshawe was a parliamentary constituency created in 1950 and represented by Alf Morris of the Labour Party between 1964 and 1997.

At the time of the 2001 UK Census, Wythenshawe was divided into six local government wards: Baguley, Benchill, Northenden, Sharston, Woodhouse Park and Brooklands.

Wythenshawe is 8 miles south of the city centre and is the southernmost district of Manchester.

On this old map of Wythenshawe it is roughly the rectangular area between three country lanes with Heyhead at its northwest corner.

Wythenshawe is policed by the city of Manchester Division of Greater Manchester Police.

Nearest railway station to Wythenshawe was located adjacent to Longley Lane at the edge of Sharston on the Cheshire Lines Railway from Stockport to Liverpool.

Wythenshawe did not then have a public railway service for several decades, with the nearest stations being located in the neighbouring areas of Gatley, Heald Green and Altrincham.

Wythenshawe was later acquired by Electrium, which is under Siemens' ownership.

Wythenshawe is the outdoor filming location for the Channel 4 series Shameless, which shows various shots of the local tower-blocks, housing estates and other architecture unique to this area.

Wythenshawe housed the outdoor sets for the show, which were built on private property.

In 2009, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York went to Wythenshawe to make a television documentary for ITV1 entitled The Duchess on the Estate.