Woodborough is a village and civil parish in the Gedling district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England.

Woodborough was a framework-knitting village, and some two-storey cottages with ground-floor knitter's windows remain at the junction of Main Street and Shelt Hill.

One was Flight Lieutenant Don Henderson, who was the leader of the Viper Red aerobatics team, at Syerston.

A tail plane landed at a former Borstal (HM Prison Lowdham Grange since 1998).

One person parachuted in the village main street, on telephone wires near the Four Bells pub.