Woodbrook is a suburban community in

New Castle County New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the ...

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Geography

Woodbrook is located approximately three miles north of Wilmington and is part of unincorporated

Brandywine Hundred Brandywine Hundred (also known as North Wilmington) is an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware. It is located to the north and northeast of the city of Wilmington. Hundreds were once used as a basis for representation in the ...

, west of Concord Pike (

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) and east of

Brandywine Creek State Park Brandywine Creek State Park is a state park, located north of Wilmington, Delaware along the Brandywine Creek. Open year-round, it is in area and much of the park was part of a Du Pont family estate and dairy farm before becoming a state park ...

. It is adjacent

DuPont Country Club Along Delaware Route 141 there are a number of historic sites that trace the history of both the Du Pont family and the DuPont company. At the southwest end is DuPont’s Chestnut Run Plaza and at the northeastern end is the Alfred I. duPont Ho ...

, and has entrances from Rockland Road, Blackgates Road, and Sharpley Road. It is part of the

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for 19803. The

William Young House William Young House is a historic home located near Rockland, New Castle County, Delaware. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is just uphill from the Rockland Historic District, on Black Gates Road acro ...

is located in the neighborhood, the land on which is sited set aside for the historic monument during the final

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in 1959.

Husbands Run Husbands Run is a long tributary to Brandywine Creek in New Castle County, Delaware north of Wilmington, Delaware. It rises in Woodley Park between the Tavistock Woodbrook, Sharpley and Edenridge neighborhoods. It flows through DuPont Countr ...

and its tributary

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flow through the neighborhood. Many DuPont historic sites are located nearby.

History

Woodbrook was planned as early as 1948. It is a deed-restricted planned community of 215 single-family homes, developed beginning in 1952 by Woodlawn Trustees, an organization set up by conservationist

William Poole Bancroft William Poole Bancroft (July 12, 1835 – April 20, 1928) was an American industrialist who later became an important figure in the land conservation movement. His belief that the beauty of the Brandywine region should be protected against urban ...

to preserve open land around the

Brandywine River Brandywine Creek (also called the Brandywine River) is a tributary of the Christina River in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States. The Lower Brandywine (the main stem) is longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydr ...

and to provide affordable housing. Neighboring Sharpley, Edenridge and

Tavistock Tavistock ( ) is an ancient stannary and market town within West Devon, England. It is situated on the River Tavy from which its name derives. At the 2011 census the three electoral wards (North, South and South West) had a population of 13,028 ...

are also Woodlawn communities. The Woodbrook Civic Association was established on January 25, 1962.Woodbrook Civic Association handbook

References

External links

Woodbrook Newsletter
{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Delaware Unincorporated communities in New Castle County, Delaware