Woodhouses

This article is about the village in Oldham district. For other uses, see Woodhouse (disambiguation).

Woodhouses is a village near Failsworth, in the Oldham district of Greater Manchester (which was part of Lancashire until 1974), England. It is about 5 miles (8 km) miles from Manchester city centre. In 2021 it had a population of 1094.^[1] Woodhouses Conservation Area includes most of the village and was designated in 1975.^[2]

Woodhouses
Ashton Lane
Woodhouses Location within Greater Manchester
Area	0.2521 km2 (0.0973 sq mi)
Population	1,094 (2021 census)
• Density	4,340/km2 (11,200/sq mi)
Metropolitan borough	Oldham
Metropolitan county	Greater Manchester
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
List of places UK England Greater Manchester 53.5032°N 2.1377°W / 53.5032; -2.1377

Amenities

Woodhouses has a church called Woodhouses Mission Church,^[3] a school called Woodhouses Voluntary Controlled Primary,^[4] 3 pubs and a golf club.^[5]

History

The name "Woodhouses" probably means 'an enclosure surrounded by woods'.^[2] Woodhouses was formerly in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne.^[6] On 31 December 1894 Woodhouses became a civil parish in its own right^[7] with a population of 677 in 1951.^[8] On 1 April 1954 the parish was abolished and merged with Failsworth and Oldham.^[9]