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ITHINGTON is a township of the parish of , has an area of upwards of 5 acres, the latter of 2 acres. W and was formed into an ecclesiastical district in 1842, Earl Egerton of Tatton is lord of the manor and chief and was constituted a parish June 16, 1854, under the landowner. The soil is of a sandy nature; the subsoil "Manchester Rectory Division Act, r85o;" it is 4 miles chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, turnips, south from Manchester, in the Stretford division of the potatoes and grass. The population in r8gr was 14,213, county of Lancaster, , -upon­ and in 1901, I6,o4g, and the urban district, 36,202 ; the acre­ Medlock union, Stockport county court district, rural age is 5,728; rateable value, only, £ro4,377; deanery of , archdeaconry and dioce.5~ of Man­ urban district, [2401 3o8. chester. Parish Clerk, John Francis Brook, II St. Paul's road. The present township forms part of an Urhan District PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Council of xB members, under the " Local Government Act, Office, Wellington road, Withington.-Arthur Perrin, 1894," comprising the four townships of Burna~e, Chorlton­ sub-postmaster. Letters through Manchester, delivered cwn-Hardy, Didsbury and Withington ; but !J:t.rt of the old at 7 a.m. & 12 noon & 3 & 6 p.m. ; sundays, 7.3o a. m.; township of Withington, with the township of dispatched at 8.20, Io & 11.35 a.m. & 2, 4·451 8.30 & and part of the township of , was in x885 consti­ 9·45 p.m. ; sundays, 8.30 p.m. only tuted a ward of the city of Manchester m.c..er the name of PARCEL PosT.-Deliveries, 7 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; dispatches, 9-45 "Rusholme Ward," which is represented 0n the city council a.m. & 8 p.m by three members. The church of St. Paul, erected in 1841, LETTER BoxEs.-Malvern grove, Central road, Palatine is a structure of red brick, consisting of ehancel, nave and road, Parsonage road, Cotton lane, , Mauldeth a western tower containing one bell · the church was en­ road & White Lion, road larged in r864, restored and rearranged internally in 1874· 6, PosT & M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, 61 at a cost of £6r7, and in r8go underwent further restora­ Mauldeth road, Ladybarn.-Mrs. Mary Ann Bolton, sub~ tion, at a cost of £44r : the east window and several others postmistress. Letters through Manchester, delivered are stained, one being a memorial to Her late Majesty 7 a.m. 12 noon, 3 & 6 p.m. ; sunJays, 7.30 a.m.; Queen Victoria, another was presented in memory of the dispatched at 8, B.ss & II.I5 a.m., LIS, 4-15, 8 & B.ss late Mr. Henry Turnbull, of Withington. There are 750 p.m. ; BUndays, 7 p.m. ; parcel dispatches, 8-SS a..m. sittings, 504 of which are free. The register dates from x.xs, 4-IS & 8 p.m the year 1841. The living is a rectory, net yearly value [4oo, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1892 Urban District Council by the Rev. William Muzzell, of St. Aidan's. The Catholic Beyond the city limits. church, in Palatine road, dedicated to St. Cuthbert, was built in 18Bo, and seats 250 persons. There are Wesleyan Offices-Town Hall, Lapwing lane. a11d Primitive Methodist chapels, and a Congregational MEMBERS OF THE CoUNCIL. chapel, in Palatine road, built in rB82. Beaver Park Baptist Chairman-W. E. Harwood J.P church, Didsbury, erected at a cost of about £2,goo, is an Vice-Chairman-J. Swarbrick edifice of brick and terra cotta in the Gothic sty le, from designs by Mr. A. W. Smith, architect, of Manchester, and Chorlton-cum-Hardy Ward. COlll!ists of nave, transepts, chancel and a tower : there is an !Brown Benjamin, Thornlea, Edge la. Chorlton-cnm-Hardy ootagonal baptistery in the centre of the chancel, with a *Cole William, Th~ Poplars, Edge la. Chorlton-cum-Hardy curb and two sets of steps, built entirely of white and rouge t N orquoy William, Orcadia, 40 Manchester road, Chorlton- marbles: the church seats 548 persons, and there are cum-Hardy school rooms for 300 children. The Southern Cemetery, IJidsbu·ry Ward. in Barlow Moor road, is the property of the Manchester Cor­ tAshton Miss, Fairfax house, Didsbury poration. There is also a Crematorium, but quite uncon­ *Merrill A. 14 Grove street, Didsbury nected with the cemetery. The Public Hall and Library, in tMoss Fletcher, The Old Parsonage, Didsbury :Burton road, erected in 1861, is a small edifice of brick, with Fallowfield Ward. a eolleetion of 1,000 volumes, and has also two billiard tables. !Mayor Thomas, 4 Mauldeth road west, Fallowfield The Victoria Hall, in Lansdowne street, is 'llSed for con­ *Prime Henry, 130 , F~&llowfield ea-ts, balls &c. The Chorlkm Union Workhouse, erected tTurnbull Thomas, The Beeches, Burnage lane in r8551 has a large hospital, on the pavilion principle, West IJidsbury Ward. opened in 1866 : the first cost was about £22,000, *Edwards Charles S. 10 Clyde road, West Didsbury but two additional blocks were built in 1886, and two tHarwood Waiter Edward, Grove house, :134 Barlow Moor pa"rilions and a nurses' home afterwards, bringing up the road, West Didsbury total cost to about £75,000 for 700 beds, and £s,ooo for the tNield George H. I Rowsley avenue, West. Didsbury nurses' home ; the hospital now consists of seven pavilions, Whalley Range Ward. each containing 100 beds : for those suffering from in­ tChapman James, 78 Ba.rlow Moor road, Chorlton-cum~ fectious diseases there is a separate building in a remote Hardy portion of the grounds, and contains upwards of so beds ; *Lloyd G. R. Oswaldcroft, 48 Albert road, Whalley range the C08t of erection was about £2,000, in addition to the t0wens Robert, 205 Withington road, Whalley range C08t of the general hospital ; the whole premises, including farmyard, stables, and a joiner's shop, are inclosed by a Withington Ward. boundary wall : the workhouse departments will hold 1Provis C. W. xo Rathen road, Withington 1,140 inmates ; the hospitals will hold 750 patients. On *Swarbrick J oseph, II Circular road, Withington the opposite side of Nell1ane, in connection with the work­ tLunn Joo, Fern bank, 121 Wilmslow road, Withington hBU&e., are a. nnmher of buildings, erected in r881, for the Marked thUll ~ retire in 1903. P~ of homes and schools for 350 children, now used for Marked thus • retire in 1904. the aged and infirm, the children having been removed to Marked thns t retire in 1905. ~~_Bome at Styal, Cheshire. Two recreation grounds, Clerk-Albert Roberts, Town hall m P~ham rood and Cavendish road respectively, were Treasurer E. W. Lloyd, Manchester &Countv Banlr:, Wit}l. ()pened by the Urban District Council in 1895; the former ingt.on