Whittle-le-Woods (commonly shortened to Whittle) is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England.

Just over a mile to the east of the M61 is the hamlet of Whittle Springs, location of a famous spa which was founded in 1836 and which thousands of people visited from across the country.

[5] In 1841, Lady Susanna Hoghton of Astley Hall gave the Tithebarn Croft for the benefit of local people in need.

Originally, the canal passed through the Whittle Hills, east of the village itself, via a long tunnel, engineered by John Rennie.

Between though as a deep cutting which famously in the 1960s, an engineer from the British Rail and Waterways museum commented "have no problems matching the Shropshire Union canal".