Woodhouse
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Places
- Annesley WoodhouseAnnesley WoodhouseAnnesley Woodhouse is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, located approximately 10 miles north of the City of Nottingham and 6 miles south of Mansfield, close to Junction 27 of the M1. With a current population of around 3.500, it originated as a farming community and expanded in the 19th and...
, Nottinghamshire, England - Dronfield WoodhouseDronfield WoodhouseDronfield Woodhouse is a district of Dronfield, in northeast Derbyshire, England. Its habitation has existed as early as the 11th century and its main road features a 13th century house and a 19th century Primary School .Although Dronfield Woodhouse today constitutes the western half of the town...
, Derbyshire, England - Holbeck WoodhouseHolbeck WoodhouseHolbeck Woodhouse is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 6 miles south of Worksop and is about ½ mile south of Holbeck. The hamlet is part of the Welbeck Abbey estate, and was built for the Dukes of Portland....
, Nottinghamshire, England - Horsley WoodhouseHorsley WoodhouseHorsley Woodhouse is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. It is situated on the A609 road between the neighbouring villages of Kilburn and Smalley...
, Derbyshire, England - Mansfield WoodhouseMansfield WoodhouseMansfield Woodhouse is a large village about 2 kilometres north of Mansfield itself, in Nottinghamshire, England. With a history dating back before the Romans, it is still noteworthy for its stone built town centre...
, Nottinghamshire, England - Over WoodhouseOver WoodhouseOver Woodhouse is a suburban area lying just North-West of Bolsover Towncentre, Derbyshire, just to the North of Bolsover Castle, on a hill facing it...
, Derbyshire, England - Woodhouse (parish), LeicestershireWoodhouse (parish), LeicestershireWoodhouse is a civil parish in Leicestershire, England. It consists of the village of Woodhouse and the larger village of Woodhouse Eaves....
, England, comprising the villages of- Woodhouse, LeicestershireWoodhouse, LeicestershireWoodhouse, often known to locals as Old Woodhouse, is a small village in the heart of Charnwood, England. Located between the larger Woodhouse Eaves and Quorn villages, this picturesque village, with a mixture of small cottages and large modern houses, is one of the most expensive villages in the...
- Woodhouse EavesWoodhouse EavesWoodhouse Eaves is a village located on the side of Beacon Hill, in the Charnwood Forest area of Leicestershire, England.It is a sizeable rural village, having several pubs and a few shops...
, Leicestershire
- Woodhouse, Leicestershire
- Woodhouse, South YorkshireWoodhouse, South YorkshireWoodhouse ward—which includes the district of Woodhouse and most of Handsworth—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the southeastern part of the city and covers an area of 7 km2. The population of this ward in 2001 was 17,900 people in...
, England - Woodhouse Hill, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England
- Woodhouse, LeedsWoodhouse, LeedsWoodhouse is a largely residential area just north of the city centre of Leeds and home to the University of Leeds. It is in the Hyde Park and Woodhouse ward of City of Leeds metropolitan district. It was described in 1853 as a "large and handsome village"...
, West Yorkshire, England- Woodhouse MoorWoodhouse MoorWoodhouse Moor is an open space approximately one mile from Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England. Today it consists of 3 parts: a formal park, Woodhouse Moor , of around 26 hectares in area on the west of Woodhouse Lane , and two other open areas on the east of it...
, Leeds - part of the above
- Woodhouse Moor
- Woodhouse CopseWoodhouse CopseWoodhouse Copse is a wood owned and managed by Graeme Kirk. It is located on the north east side of the Isle of Wight between Whippingham and Wootton, the main entrance being at SZ527928...
, Isle of Wight, England - Woodhouse ParkWoodhouse ParkWoodhouse Park is a locality in the south of the area of Wythenshawe, in the city of Manchester in North West England.The area incorporates Wythenshawe town centre and borders onto Newall Green but is separated by the M56 motorway from which it is served by Junctions 4 and 5...
, Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, England - Woodhouse Township, Ontario, Canada
Buildings and institutions
- Woodhouse ChocolateWoodhouse ChocolateWoodhouse Chocolate is an upscale chocolate shop in Napa Valley, California popular with celebrities like Steven Spielberg. Founded by John Anderson, a former winemaker and graduate of Claremont McKenna College and his wife and chocolate chef Tracy Wood Anderson, a graduate of Scripps College.The...
, a famous shop in Napa Valley, California, USA - Wentworth WoodhouseWentworth WoodhouseWentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house near the village of Wentworth, in the vicinity of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. "One of the great Whig political palaces", its East Front, long, is the longest country house façade in Europe. The house includes 365 rooms and covers an...
, a country house near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England - The WodehouseThe WodehouseThe Wodehouse is a country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable as the seat of the Georgian landscape designer and musicologist Sir Samuel Hellier and, a century later, Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier, director of the Royal Military School of Music. For almost 200 years the family...
, formerly spelled the Woodhouse, a country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable for its connections with British musical history. - Woodhouse CollegeWoodhouse CollegeWoodhouse College is a single site state sixth form college situated between North Finchley and Friern Barnet on the eastern side of the London Borough of Barnet...
, a sixth form college in Finchley, North London, England - Woodhouse Grove SchoolWoodhouse Grove SchoolWoodhouse Grove School is an independent, coeducational, day and boarding public school and Sixth Form college in Apperley Bridge, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England for children aged between 11 and 18...
, independent school in Apperly Bridge, West Yorkshire, England - Woodhouse High SchoolWoodhouse High SchoolLandau Forte Academy, Tamworth is a high-school situated in Amington, a suburb of Tamworth, Staffordshire...
, Tamworth, Staffordshire - Woodhouse House (Virginia Beach, Virginia)Woodhouse House (Virginia Beach, Virginia)Woodhouse House in Virginia Beach, Virginia, also known as Fountain House or Simmons House, was built in 1810. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007....
, USA
People
- Barbara WoodhouseBarbara WoodhouseBarbara Kathleen Vera Woodhouse , was a well known British dog trainer, author and television personality. Her 1980 television series Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way made her into a household name in the UK...
(1910-1988), British dog trainer and television personality - Brad WoodhouseBrad WoodhouseBrad Woodhouse is the communications director of the United States Democratic National Committee.-Career:Woodhouse gained widespread notice as a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee during the early 2000s, and was casually named by a Washington Post columnist as possibly "the...
, American political operative - Charles WoodhouseCharles WoodhouseAdmiral Sir Charles Henry Lawrence Woodhouse KCB was an officer of the Royal Navy.-Naval career:Woohouse joined the Royal Navy in 1906. He served in World War I and specialized in gunnery. In 1935 he was appointed Assistant Director of Naval Equipment at the Admiralty.He captained in the Battle...
(1893-1978), British admiral - Chase G. WoodhouseChase G. WoodhouseChase Going Woodhouse was an educator and Congresswoman from the Second Congressional District in Connecticut. She was the second woman elected to Congress from Connecticut, and the first elected as a Democrat.Woodhouse graduated from Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Kentucky, 1908...
(1890-1984), Canadian educator and (United States) congresswoman - Christopher Woodhouse, 6th Baron TerringtonChristopher Woodhouse, 6th Baron TerringtonProfessor Christopher Richard James Woodhouse, 6th Baron Terrington is a British peer and a senior urologist.He was born in 1946, the son of Colonel Christopher Woodhouse. He was educated at Winchester College and Guy's Hospital Medical School...
(born 1946), British urologist - Curtis WoodhouseCurtis WoodhouseCurtis Woodhouse is an English professional footballer and boxer. Woodhouse plays football as a central midfielder for Conference North outfit Eastwood Town, and competes as a light-welterweight boxer. He is the reigning International Masters light-welterweight champion...
(born 1980), English footballer and boxer - Danielle WoodhouseDanielle WoodhouseDanielle Woodhouse is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Along with Liz Weekes, Woodhouse was the goal keeper for the Australian team in 2000.- References :...
(born 1969), Australian water polo player - Emma WoodhouseEmma WoodhouseEmma Woodhouse is the 20-year old protagonist of Jane Austen's novel Emma. She is described in the novel's opening sentence as "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition."...
, eponymous heroine of Jane Austen's novel Emma - Fred WoodhouseFred WoodhouseFrederick "Fred" Irvine Woodhouse was an Australian athlete who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games and in the 1938 British Empire Games.At the 1934 Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the pole vault event...
(born 1912), Australian athlete - George WoodhouseGeorge WoodhouseGeorge Edward Sealy Woodhouse DL, born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, on 15 February 1924 and died also at Blandford on 19 January 1988, had two careers: one as a cricketer for Somerset and Dorset, the second as the chairman from 1962 to his death of the family brewing company Hall and Woodhouse...
(1924-1988), English cricketer and brewer- Hall & WoodhouseHall & WoodhouseHall and Woodhouse is a British regional brewery founded in 1777 by Charles Hall in Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK. The company operates over 250 public houses in the south of England, and brews under the name Badger Brewery.-History:...
, English brewery, owned by the above
- Hall & Woodhouse
- Greg WoodhouseGreg WoodhouseGreg Woodhouse is a former football player. He went on to make 24 appearances for the Socceroos as a goalkeeper. He is currently a coach at the International Goalkeepers Academy located at Blacktown Olympic Park which is run by Jim Fraser, another former Socceroo goalkeeper.- References :...
(born 1960), Australian footballer - Hedley WoodhouseHedley WoodhouseHedley John Woodhouse was a Canadian jockey who won the New York state riding championship in 1953. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began his racing career there in 1937 at the Lansdowne Park racetrack as an apprentice with A.C.T. Stock Farm owned by industrialist Austin C. Taylor...
(1920-1984), Canadian jockey - Henry WoodhouseHenry WoodhouseHenry Woodhouse was an Italian-born US aviation enthusiast, magazine publisher, speculator and forger of historical documents.-Earlier life:...
(Mario Terenzio Enrico Casalengo) (1884-1970), Italian aviator, speculator, and forger - James Woodhouse, 1st Baron Terrington, (1852-1921), British politician
- John WoodhouseJohn WoodhouseThe Rt Rev John Walker Woodhouse was an Anglican Suffragan Bishop from 1945 until 1953.He was born on 28 January 1884 and educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St James, Milton, Portsmouth...
(1884-1955), English bishop - Joyce WoodhouseJoyce WoodhouseJoyce Woodhouse is a Democratic member of the Nevada Senate, representing Clark County District 5 since 2007.-External links:* official government website* profile*Follow the Money - Joyce Woodhouse** campaign contributions...
(born 1944), American politician - Mark WoodhouseMark WoodhouseMark Woodhouse nicknamed Woody is a British professional basketball player, and currently plays for Derby Trailblazers in the English Basketball League....
(born 1982), British basketball player - Mark WoodhouseMark Woodhouse (cricketer)Mark Woodhouse was a Zimbabwean cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Mashonaland Country Districts. He was born in Salisbury ....
(born 1967), Zimbabwean cricketer - Martin WoodhouseMartin WoodhouseMartin Charlton Woodhouse was a British author and scriptwriter. He is most famous as a writer for the TV series The Avengers, but he also authored or co-authored eleven novels...
(born 1932), British author and scriptwriter - Michael WoodhouseMichael WoodhouseMichael Woodhouse is a National member of the 49th New Zealand Parliament.-Early years:He was born and raised in South Dunedin and attended Kavanagh College which he left in 1983. After that he studied Commerce and Accounting at Otago University which he graduated from in 1993...
, New Zealand politician - Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington (1917-2001), British politician and writer
- Owen WoodhouseOwen WoodhouseArthur "Owen" Woodhouse, ONZ, KBE, DSC is a New Zealand jurist and chair of government commissions.He was born in Napier and graduated from the University of Auckland with an LL.B. in 1940. During the World War II he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve...
(born 1916), New Zealand judge - Robert WoodhouseRobert WoodhouseRobert Woodhouse was an English mathematician.-Biography:He was born at Norwich, the son of Robert Woodhouse, linen draper, and educated at Caius College, Cambridge, of which society he was subsequently a fellow...
(1773-1827), English mathematician - Rob WoodhouseRob WoodhouseRobert "Rob" Woodhouse is a former Australian Olympic swimmer, specializing in medley swimming. He is now a prominent sports agent and company director...
(born 1966), Australian Olympic swimmer turned company director - Robyn WoodhouseRobyn WoodhouseRobyn Woodhouse is a former female track and field athlete from Australia, who mainly competed in the high jump event during her career. She represented her native country at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western...
(born 1943), Australian high jumper - Samuel Washington WoodhouseSamuel Washington Woodhousethumb|1847 daguerreotypeSamuel Washington Woodhouse was an American surgeon, explorer and naturalist.Woodhouse was doctor and naturalist on the Sitgreaves Expedition led by Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves from San Antonio to San Diego which explored the possibility of a route from the Zuni River to the...
(1821-1904), American surgeon, explorer and naturalist - Stan WoodhouseStan WoodhouseStanley "Stan" Woodhouse was an English footballer who played initially as an inside forward and later as a half back with Bury and Southampton in the 1920s and 1930s.-Playing career:...
(1899-1977), English footballer - Thomas WoodhouseThomas WoodhouseThe Blessed Thomas Woodhouse was an English Catholic priest and martyr at Tyburn on 19 June 1573, being disembowelled alive.-Biography:Ordained in Queen Mary Tudor's reign, he was a Lincolnshire rector for under a year, and in 1560 acted as a private tutor in Wales.On 14 May 1561, he was committed...
(died 1573), English Roman Catholic martyr - Tristram WoodhouseTristram WoodhouseTristram Woodhouse is a former field hockey forward from Australia, who made his debut for the Men's National Team in 2003 in a Test series against The Netherlands. That was in the second match of the test series in Canberra. Woodhouse scored his maiden goal in Australia's 3-3 draw in Buderim...
(born 1974), Australian field hockey player - Vera Woodhouse (1889-1956), British politician
- Violet Gordon-WoodhouseViolet Gordon-WoodhouseViolet Gordon-Woodhouse was an acclaimed British harpsichordist and clavichordist, highly influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion.-Family:...
(1872-1951), acclaimed harpsichordist - William WoodhouseWilliam WoodhouseWilliam Henry Woodhouse was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played nine matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1884 and 1885....
(1856-1938), English cricketer - William John WoodhouseWilliam John WoodhouseWilliam John Woodhouse was a classical scholar and author, professor of Greek at the University of Sydney-Early life:...
(1866-1937), English classical scholar and author
See also
- P. G. WodehouseP. G. WodehouseSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
- Wodehouse (disambiguation)
- WoodwoseWoodwoseThe wild man is a mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.The defining characteristic of the figure is its "wildness"; from the 12th century...
, mythological figure