Northenden

Northenden is a suburban area and electoral ward of the city of Manchester in North West England. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 14,771. It lies on the south side of both the River Mersey and the M60 motorway, 4.2mi west of Stockport and 5.2mi south of Manchester city centre. Northenden is one of several areas in the Wythenshawe district of South Manchester. It is bounded by the districts of Didsbury to the north, Gatley to the east, and the rest of Wythenshawe to the south and west.Anciently a part of Cheshire, Northenden was formerly a rural township and parish within the hundred of Bucklow. Despite a process of unplanned urbanisation and population growth in its neighbours during the 19th century, Northenden remained a comparatively rural and unpopulated area which spanned the hamlets of Lawton Moor, Northern Moor, Rose Hill and a part of what is now Wythenshawe. By 1866 Northenden had coalesced and became a civil parish. The industrialisation of neighbouring Manchester resulted in overpopulation, and so in the early 20th century Manchester City Council used the Local Government Act 1929 to extend its boundaries to encompass Northenden in 1931.