Catalogue description TOWNSHIP OF WITHINGTON RECORDS.

This collection contains rate books, minutes, plans of property and overseers records.

The library possesses the minute book, account book and miscellaneous paper of the Amalgamation League 1902-4 (BR. F 352.042 W20 and W21). This was formed in 1902 to draw attention to the advantages of amalgamation with Manchester. Short histories were written of the Withington Local Board 1881-1894 (352.042 W24), and there was a review of the first 3 years of work of the Withington Urban District Council (1895-1898) (352.042 W23), copies of which are preserved in the library. These give in detail boundary changes in the territory they were responsible for. The library also possesses some plans and sections concerning tramway improvements and construction in 1879, and 1880 (FF 626.6 W1 and W2).

Township of Withington

The records listed here were transferred from the Rates Department and the Committee Clerk's Department in the Manchester Town Hall in 1958.

• Withington, Lancashire
• Withington, Greater Manchester

Withington originally in the Parish of Manchester, later in that of Didsbury, and a parish of its own from 1854, was a township within the Chorlton on Medlock Union of Poor Law Guardians from 1837. From 1876 the Withington Local Board of Health was set up whose territory extended over Withington, Whalley Range, Didsbury, West Didsbury, Fallowfield and Chorlton cum Hardy. In 1894 the Withington Urban District Council was set up under the Local Government Act 1894, its territory comprising 4 whole parishes, namely Withington, Chorlton cum Hardy, Burnage and Didsbury. In 1904 Withington was all incorporated with Manchester, though from 1885 the northern portion of the township, along with Rusholme and part of Moss Side was incorporated with Manchester and formed the Rusholme ward of the City. A Withington's Committee of the Manchester City Council continued to manage Withington's affairs until 1915. Withington remained in the Chorlton on Medlock Union until 1910 when it was merged with other townships to form the Township of South Manchester.

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