Woodley, Greater Manchester

Woodley has two primary schools:

• 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.
• Greave Primary School, in Greave, on the border with Romiley.

Primary school aged children can also attend a nearby school in neighbouring Bredbury: St. Marks C. of E. Primary School on Redhouse Lane; this was the original infant and junior school for the locality.

After education in these primary schools, most students feed to either Werneth School, Marple Hall School or Harrytown Catholic High School for their secondary education.

Woodley looking SE with the old J. G. Naylor abrasives mill factory at lower centre and Woodley railway station at left

Woodley is home to four pubs: The White Hart, The Railway, The Navigation and The Woodley Arms. These pubs form the start of the Ring of Death, a pub crawl that takes in Woodley, Bredbury, Romiley and ends in Greave. The Ring of Death used to consist of twenty pubs in total and was a traditional marathon undertaken by locals at Christmas. Woodley was also home to the recently transformed snooker palace which, following the removal of its snooker tables, became the Palace Bar; it is now closed and up for sale.

Woodley is the home of semi-professional football club Stockport Town. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One South, the tenth tier of English football, and play at Stockport Sports Village.[1]

Still existent

• Woodley Mill
• Thorn Works (formerly Middle Mill)
• Wellington Works (formerly Botany Mill)

Demolished

• Wood Mill, Woodley
• Top Mill
• Star Mill

• Listed buildings in Bredbury and Romiley