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Woodley is a suburb in the
Metropolitan Borough of Stockport The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is south-east of central Manchester and south of Tameside. As well as the towns of Stockport, Bredbury and Marple, Greater Manchester, Marple, ...
,
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, England. It is situated mostly on the east side of the
Peak Forest Canal The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow ( gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England. It is long and forms part of the connected English/Welsh inland waterway network. Route and features General description The canal consists of two leve ...
, next to
Bredbury Bredbury is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, east of Stockport and south-west of Hyde, Greater Manchester, Hyde. The Bredbury and Woodley, Greater Manchester, Woodley buil ...
,
Romiley Romiley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Cheshire, it borders Marple, Greater Manchester, Marple, Bredbury and Woodley, Greater Manchester, Wood ...
and the boundary with
Tameside Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, named after the River Tame, Greater Manchester, River Tame, which flows through it, and includes the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Greater Manchester, Denton, D ...
, at
Gee Cross Gee Cross is a village and suburb of Hyde within Tameside Metropolitan Borough, in Greater Manchester, England. History Gee Cross village centre dates back to the times of the Domesday Book. Originally, Gee Cross was the larger village in t ...
.
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part of
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, the name means "a clearing in the wood" because the area contains much woodland.


Religion

Woodley Methodist Church, sited on Chapel Street, has been a part of the community since 1868; the building was rebuilt in 1998. St Mark's Church, sited on Redhouse Lane in Bredbury, is an
Anglican Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
church which serves the parish of Bredbury and Woodley.


Transport


Railway

Woodley railway station is a stop on the
Hope Valley line The Hope Valley line is a trans-Pennine railway line in Northern England, linking Manchester with Sheffield. It was completed in 1894. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern Trains, East Midlands Railway and TransPennine ...
; it is on the ''Hyde Loop'' which stretches from to , via but by-passing .
Northern Trains Northern Trains, Trade name, trading as Northern, is a British train operating company that operates Commuter rail, commuter and Inter-city rail, medium-distance intercity services in the North of England. It is owned by DfT Operator for the Dep ...
operates services in a generally half-hourly pattern between and on Mondays to Saturdays; there is no service on Sundays.


Buses

Stagecoach Manchester Stagecoach ManchesterCompanies House extract company no 2818654
operates two local bus routes: * 330 runs regularly between
Stockport Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt, Rivers Goyt and River Tame, Greater Manchester, Tame merge to create the River Mersey he ...
and
Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 48,604 at the 2021 census. Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, Greater Manchester, ...
, via Bredbury, Hyde and
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* 382 runs between Stockport and Woodley, via Bredbury and Romiley.


Roads

Woodley is situated close to J25 of the M60 Manchester orbital motorway. The A560 passes through the suburb, which runs between
Altrincham Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester, southwest of Sale, Greater Manchester, Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2021 United Kingdom ce ...
, Stockport, Gee Cross and
Hattersley Hattersley is a housing estate in the Tameside district of Greater Manchester, England. It is located east of the town centre of Hyde, west of Glossop and east of Manchester, at the eastern terminus of the M67. The estate has Hyde postal a ...
.


Canal

The
Peak Forest Canal The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow ( gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England. It is long and forms part of the connected English/Welsh inland waterway network. Route and features General description The canal consists of two leve ...
runs through Woodley, which features a long tunnel under the A560. It was completed in 1805. Although much of the canal fell into disuse by the early 1960s, it was restored and reopened subsequently in April 1974.


Education

Woodley has two
primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...
s: * Woodley Primary School, previously called Woodley Infant and Junior schools. The school also ran a nursery which was next to (and connected to) Woodley Methodist Church. This was the site of the original Woodley primary school opened in 1864. * Greave Primary School, in Greave, on the border with Romiley. Primary school aged children can also attend a nearby school in neighbouring Bredbury: St. Mark's Church of England Primary School on Redhouse Lane; this was the original infant and junior school for the locality. Most students then feed to either Werneth School, Marple Hall School or Harrytown Catholic High School for their secondary education.


Community

Woodley is home to four pubs: The White Hart, The Railway, The Navigation and The Woodley Arms. They form the start of the ''Ring of Death'', a pub crawl that takes in Woodley, Bredbury, Romiley and ends in Greave; it used to consist of twenty pubs in total and was a traditional marathon undertaken by locals at Christmas. Woodley was also home to a
snooker hall A billiard hall, also known as a pool hall, snooker hall, pool room or pool parlour, is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards. Such establishments commonly serve alcohol and often h ...
originally a cinema. Following the removal of its snooker tables, became the ''Palace Bar''; it has now closed.


Sport

Woodley is the home of semi-professional football club Stockport Town. They are currently members of the , the ninth tier of English football, and play at Stockport Sports Village. Stockport Sports Village is located in Woodley; facilities include a gym, sauna, football pitches and fitness courses. Woodley Cricket Club play their home matches at their facilities on High Lane.


Mills

Extant * Woodley Mill * Thorn Works (formerly Middle Mill) * Wellington Works (formerly Botany Mill) Demolished * Wood Mill, Woodley * Top Mill * Star Mill


See also

*
Listed buildings in Bredbury and Romiley Bredbury and Romiley are towns in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. The towns, together with the area of Woodley, Greater Manchester, Woodley and the village of Compstall and the surrounding countryside, contain ...


References


External links

{{authority control Areas of Greater Manchester Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport