Woodhead is a small and scattered settlement at the head of the Longdendale valley in Derbyshire, England.

Although part of Derbyshire since 1974, like nearby Tintwistle and Crowden the hamlet was in the historic county of Cheshire.

Among the remains in the graveyard of St James Church, a small 18th-century chapel, are the unmarked graves of navvies who died during the construction of the tunnels.

[2] Two miles to the east, the Lady Cross marks the highest point of the former packhorse road from Longdendale to Rotherham.

[4] On 6 July 2014, Stage 2 of the 2014 Tour de France, from York to Sheffield, passed through the hamlet.