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Population | 17,450 (2011) |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
UK Parliament | |
Councillors | Jackie Satur (Labour Party) Mick Rooney (Labour Party) Raymond Satur (Labour Party) |
Coordinates: 53°21′29″N 1°22′23″W / 53.358°N 1.373°W
Woodhouse 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 2011 was 17,450 people in 7,764 households. It is one of the wards that make up the Sheffield South East constituency (formerly Sheffield Attercliffe constituency).
Woodhouse (grid reference SK420849) is a former farming and coal-mining village, now a suburb and housing estate in the south-east of Sheffield. It is served by regular buses to Sheffield and has a station on the Sheffield - Lincoln railway line.
The old Cross Daggers public house, the base of the village market cross and the can be seen in the centre of the suburb. Many other old cottages, including a wattle and daub house dating from the fifteenth century, were demolished in the 1960s as part of a major redevelopment.