Woodhouse is a large village and constable wick formed into an ecclesiastical parish or district chapelry in 1878, 1 mile south-west from the Woodhouse Junction station, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway, and 5 miles from Sheffield. There are collieries and a tan yard in this village. The church of st James, consecrated May 1878, is a building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave and a north aisle. The register dates from the; ear 1878. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Archbishop of York and held by the Rev. John Harrison Winder B.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Here are Congregational and Methodist chapels and a meeting house for the society of Friends. The cemetery of 5 acres with two mortuary chapels was opened in 1862, but was enlarged in 1880 by additions to the unconsecrated portion.

Schools

Endowed (mixed), James Morton, master.

Catholic, Miss Louisa Jones, mistress.

Wesleyan Day, Joseph Biggs, master.

Endowed Infant, Mrs. Morton, mistress.

Woodhouse Junction Railway station, Samuel Sims, station master.

Woodhouse Mill station, on the Midland railway, is 167 ½ miles from London and 9 ½ east from Sheffield; near it are Woodhouse mills, Baliifield colliery, and the river Rother.