Dronfield Woodhouse

Dronfield Woodhouse
240px Pentland Road Shops, Gosforth Valley, Dronfield Woodhouse
Dronfield Woodhouse  Dronfield Woodhouse shown within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK332786
District	North East Derbyshire
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DRONFIELD
Postcode district	S18
Dialling code	01246
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	North East Derbyshire
List of places UK England Derbyshire

Dronfield Woodhouse is a district of Dronfield, in North East Derbyshire, England. Its habitation has existed as early as the 11th century (Cowley Farm, to the south) and its main road features a 13th-century house and a 19th-century Primary School (now an elderly care home).

Although Dronfield Woodhouse today constitutes the western half of the town of Dronfield, until the early 1970s it was merely a small collection of houses and farm buildings amidst farmland and woodland. In the 1970s a large housing development was constructed in the adjacent Gosforth Valley, and this resulted in Dronfield Woodhouse becoming a district of Dronfield and a quiet dormitory settlement for nearby Sheffield and Chesterfield. The surrounding countryside is still readily accessible however, and the boundary of the Peak District National Park is less than 2 miles to the west.