Woodhill is approximately 6 kilometres northwest of Waimauku and 10 km south of Helensville on State Highway 16.

[3] The railway line reached Woodhill in the 1880s, and allowed expansion of the existing farming settlement.

Ambury's Creamery shipped the cream by rail to be made into butter in Auckland.

A post office was established, and a store opened up opposite the creamery, becoming a social centre until it was destroyed by fire about 1970.

[4] In the 1920s, planting of trees to reclaim the sand dunes to the west brought forestry workers to the settlement, and a pine tree nursery was created in Woodhill in 1934.