Woodhouses

Woodhouses is a village near Failsworth, in the Oldham district of Greater Manchester, England. It is about miles from Manchester city centre. In 2021 it had a population of 1094. Woodhouses Conservation Area includes most of the village and was designated in 1975.

Amenities

Woodhouses has a church called Woodhouses Mission Church, a school called Woodhouses Voluntary Controlled Primary, 3 pubs and a golf club.

History

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