For several centuries a Tatton personal owned Wythenshawe Hall and much land within what is currently Wythenshawe. Manchester Corporation, world health organization were inside desperate want of land to home a quickly increasing people, pressured Mr.Tatton to dispense with a land inside 1926. What was it used to be that farmland was transformed into one of a big housing estates around Europe. A share of Benchill was built prior to WWII, and a rest subsequently. Wythenshawe is okay, the parliamentary constituency and also Trine electoral wards of the city of Manchester.

Wythenshawe is processed higher of eight areas: Baguley, Benchill, Moss Nook, Newall Green, Northenden (previously the village), Peel Hall, Sharston.

Famous Wythenshawe population come:
Nicholas Cochrane - actor Coronation Street
Jamie Draven - actor
Simon Gregson - actor Coronation Street
Jason Orange - singer Take That
Gerald Boswell - Manchester City Football Club.

Immediately south of Wythenshawe is Manchester International Airport, formerly known as Ringway Airport. Prior to Ringway Airport was placed out, farmland within a area of Rackfield Road in what is today the n of Wythenshawe was utilized as an landing field.

A title of Wythenshawe seems to are from either Anglo-Saxon Withigensceaga = "small wood of withy trees". This title originally referred single to Wythenshawe Hall or even its places.