EPW017393 ENGLAND (1927). Countryside prior to the construction of Benchill, Wythenshawe, from the south-west, 1927

Nearly. It actually runs just east of the bit of the "Baguley Bottoms" woodland that still remains - I've marked it with a peg. If you like this sort of detective work, take a look at the Chester Record Office's tithe and old ordnance survey maps for Cheshire, which are all on line. This is a really useful site, as it enables you to compare the old maps with the modern map in parallel panes and see exactly what is where.

Do you know why it was and still is called "The Brundrit"

The ever-wise internet tells me that it's an old English word for a clearing in woodland created by burning - odd that it came - presumably a lot later - to be used as the very opposite, a patch of trees surrounded by cleared land!



It, and similar variants such as "Brandreth", is also found as a surname. "Brundrit" as a surname is most common in Lancashire and Cheshire, which suggests that the name in this particular form might have been a dialect word in this part of the world in early local English.