Woodbrook is a suburban community in New Castle County, Delaware.
[1][2][3] Woodbrook is located approximately three miles north of Wilmington and is part of unincorporated Brandywine Hundred of New Castle County,[3] west of Concord Pike (U.S. Route 202) and east of Brandywine Creek State Park.
[5] The William Young House is located in the neighborhood, the land on which is sited set aside for the historic monument during the final subdivision in 1959.
[8] It is a deed-restricted planned community of 215 single-family homes, developed beginning in 1952 by Woodlawn Trustees, an organization set up by conservationist William Poole Bancroft to preserve open land around the Brandywine River and to provide affordable housing.
[9][6][10][11] Neighboring Sharpley, Edenridge and Tavistock are also Woodlawn communities.