Woodhead Hall is a country house at Cheadle in Staffordshire.
[1] Woodhead Hall was originally commissioned by a Mr Leigh and completed in 1720.
[4] The main task was to intercept messages from German bombers and ground stations.
[5] The hall continued as a monitoring station during the Cold War, with operations transferring to become part of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in January 1964 when all ministries' civilian interception sites came under its control.
[7] The station closed in 1995 and the property was sold into private ownership in 1997.