It was incorporated into the Urban District of Hazel Grove and Bramhall in 1939 and then the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in 1974.

Its historic properties include New Hall, a 17th-century cottage and Grade II* listed building.

[7] The Davenports left the area for the considerably grander Capesthorne in the early 18th century, following a marriage described by Arrowsmith as "fortuitous".

[10] The River Dean marks the post-1974 county boundary between Cheshire and Greater Manchester.

[11] It was a sizeable concern employing 172 people, of which half lived in the parish of Woodford.

He was a cotton spinner from Stalybridge, who used to host annual parties for his 900 operatives and families, laying on a special train to bring them.

The airfield was created from farmland by Avro during late 1924 following their eviction from Alexandra Park in Manchester.

[13] Avro became a part of the Hawker Siddeley Group in the mid-1930s,[14] and several new buildings were erected prior to the start of the Second World War.

The major project during the mid-1930s to early wartime was the building of many thousands of twin-engined Avro Ansons for use as patrol aircraft, trainers and light transports.

The delta-winged Vulcan four-jet nuclear bomber rolled from the Woodford factory between the mid-1950s and early 1960s.

Now, as part of BAE Systems Regional Aircraft, the airfield is the site of the company's Customer Training and Engineering department.

A large housing estate named Woodford Garden Village is currently being built by Redrow Homes on the site of the Aerodrome, with construction having commenced in May 2016.

By the Early Modern period, Woodford constituted a township,[12] and civil parish which on 1 April 1939 was abolished and merged with Hazel Grove and Bramhall[21] and became part of the Urban District of Hazel Grove and Bramhall.

[1] Woodford lies in the parliamentary constituency of Cheadle, represented by Liberal Democrat Tom Morrison since 2024.

This is due to being 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the Red Rock Fault at Poynton where the millstone grits and coal measures of the Carboniferous period, made a 200 metres (660 ft) downfall, to be covered with glacial tills.

Forming the most southern point of Greater Manchester, the River Dean marks the border with Cheshire.

Woodford's Met Office weather station recorded a temperature of −17.6 °C (0.3 °F) on 8 January 2010, during the winter of 2009–10 in the United Kingdom.