The park features woodland, bedding, grassland and meadows, sporting facilities, Wythenshawe community farm and a horticulture centre.

[3][4] There is no evidence of any manor house until the 16th century, when Robert Tatton of Chester built a new family home here around 1540.

Wythenshawe (or Withenshawe) Hall was built as a timber-framed Tudor house, possibly surrounded originally by a moat.

[3] The structures of a farm that was located west of Wythenshawe Hall have survived as park maintenance buildings.

[3][4] In 1968, a 7.16-metre (23.5 ft)-tall bronze statue of Oliver Cromwell on a granite plinth and pedestal was relocated to Wythenshawe Park.

From its inception, the statue had proved politically controversial, advocated by Radical Liberals but denounced by conservatives.