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Withington history
Middle Ages
The first recorded description of Withington dates from 1186, calling the area a willow-copse farmstead . Didsbury may have been established in King Edward the Elder’s reign as a fortification against the Danes . Following the Norman Conquest the lands of south Lancashire were granted to Roger of Poitou .
Tudor, Stuart and Georgian periods
The original medieval medieval manor house was situated south-east of the modern junction of Mauldeth Road West and Princess Road, which was surrounded by a moat . In 1750 it was demolished to make way for a farm building, but some of the moat was left . In the early 18th century, the Withington Manor was sold to the Egertons of Tatton .
Victorian and later periods
Wilmslow Road as a turnpike road would have been abolished as soon as 1861 if it had been built in 1881 . The trade in Withington increased steadily as the city of Manchester flourished in the early 19th century . In 1880 a tramway was built to the newly opened Withington and West Didsbury railway station .
Aviation
Louis Paulhan landed his Farman biplane in Pytha Fold Farm on the borders of Withington, Burnage and Didsbury, at the end of the first powered flight from London to Manchester . Paulhan beat the British contender, Claude Grahame-White, winning a £10,000 prize .
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