Woodhead may refer to:
Places
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Burley Woodhead
Burley Woodhead is a hamlet in the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England. The hamlet is to the south-west of Burley in Wharfedale and is approximately from the spa town of Ilkley. Burley Woodhead comprises chiefly of a small cluster of ...
, hamlet in Bradford, England
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Woodhead, Aberdeenshire
Woodhead of Fyvie, often simply called "Woodhead", is an inland hamlet in Formartine, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, that lies to the east of Fyvie near the upper River Ythan. It is believed to have been an ancient royal burgh, as evidenced by the 1 ...
, settlement in Scotland
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Woodhead Dam
Woodhead Dam is a dam on Table Mountain, Western Cape, South Africa. It was built in 1897 and supplies water to Cape Town. The dam, which was the first large masonry dam in South Africa, was designated as an International Historic Civil Engineer ...
, South Africa
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Woodhead, Derbyshire
Woodhead is a small and scattered settlement at the head of the Longdendale valley in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the trans-Pennine A628 road connecting Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire, north of Glossop, east of Manchester and wes ...
, settlement in England, near to:
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Woodhead Reservoir
Woodhead reservoir is a man-made lake near the hamlet of Woodhead in Longdendale in north Derbyshire. It was constructed by John Frederick Bateman between 1847 and June 1877 as part of the Longdendale chain to supply water from the River Etherow ...
, artificial lake
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Woodhead, Hamilton, Scotland
Woodhead in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire lies south of Little Earnock, and north of Meikle Earnock. There is a pub, The Woodhead, and the main area in Woodhead is Woodhead Green. The houses are largely local authority homes probably around 40–50 ...
, neighbourhood in South Lanarkshire
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Woodhead Line, railway line in the north of England, featuring:
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Woodhead railway station
Woodhead railway station was a railway station that served the hamlet of Woodhead on the Woodhead Line.
History
The station was opened on 8 April 1844 by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway. It was served by stopping pas ...
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Woodhead Tunnel
The Woodhead Tunnels are three parallel trans- Pennine long railway tunnels on the Woodhead Line, a former major rail link from Manchester to Sheffield in Northern England. The western portals of the tunnels are at Woodhead in Derbyshire and ...
Other uses
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Woodhead (surname) Woodhead is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Abraham Woodhead (1609–1678), English writer
*Chris Woodhead (1946–2015), British educationalist
*Cynthia Woodhead (born 1964), American Olympic swimmer
*Danny Woodhead (born 1985 ...
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Woodhead Commission
The Woodhead Commission (officially the Palestine Partition Commission''Palestine Partition Commission Report'', Command Paper 5854, Printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1938 (310 pages and 13 maps)) was a British techn ...
, a 1938 commission on the future of Palestine
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Woodhead Publishing
Woodhead Publishing Limited was established in 1989 as an independent international publishing company of science and technical books. The company publishes books in association with The Textile Institute, Cambridge International Science Publishin ...
, an international publishing company
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A628 road
The A628 is a major road connecting Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire in northern England. It crosses the Pennine hills by way of Longdendale and the Woodhead Pass in the Peak District National Park. The road's altitude and exposure to b ...
, part of which is the Woodhead Pass over the Pennines
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