Coordinates: 53°25′59″N 2°13′44″W / 53.433°N 2.229°W / 53.433; -2.229

Withington is a suburban area of the City of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Manchester city centre, about 0.4 miles (0.6 km) south of Fallowfield, 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north-east of Didsbury, and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near the centre-to-south edges of the Greater Manchester Urban Area; in the Manchester Withington parliamentary constituency. Withington is a dormitory village consisting of a resident population slightly over 14,000 people.

In the early 13th century, Withington occupied a feudal estate that included the townships of Withington, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Moss Side, Rusholme, Burnage, Denton and Haughton, held by the Hathersage, Longford and Tatton families, and within the Manor of Manchester and Hundred of Salford in historic county boundaries of Lancashire.

Withington was largely rural until the mid-nineteenth century, in which it experienced rapid socioeconomic development and urbanisation due to the Industrial Revolution, and Manchester's growing level of industrialisation. Introduced into the inner boundaries of Manchester in 1904, Withington was integrated into the city forty-five years after it gained city status.

Withington Girls' School is an independent day school in Fallowfield, Manchester, United Kingdom, providing education for girls between the ages of seven and eighteen. Withington is a member of the Girls' Schools Association and a MyDaughter school.

It was established in the late Victorian period by a group of Manchester professional and business people who wanted a school where their daughters would receive an excellent intellectual training, achieve high academic standards and gain a good education founded on clear moral principles. It has always been a relatively small school, reflecting the founders’ belief that this aids the individual development of pupils.

Founders' day is an important part of the school calendar, as it is the occasion upon which the lives and works of the school's founders are celebrated, as well as the Upper Sixth students, each of whom receive a book, as a present from the school.

It is held annually at the Bridgewater Hall, in Manchester. It usually occurs in October, however has been known to change.

Shane Withington (born 22 August 1958 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian actor best known for his starring roles in the television series A Country Practice, as nurse Brendan Jones, and Willing and Abel, as Abel Moore. Withington also had a recurring role as Colin on Home and Away.

He had a guest star appearance in Strange Bedfellows, alongside Paul Hogan and Michael Caton. In 2008, he was in the BBC drama Out of the Blue, playing the detective in charge of investigating a murder. Since 2009, he has had a regular role on Home and Away, this time as John Palmer.

Withington co-starred in the play The Boys Next Door in 1992.

He is married to Anne Tenney, who played his character's wife Molly Jones on A Country Practice.