It is located in the southeastern part of the city and covers an area of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2).

Woodhouse (grid reference SK420849) is a former farming and coal-mining village, now a suburb and housing estate in the south-east of Sheffield.

Many other old cottages, including a wattle and daub house dating from the fifteenth century, were demolished in the 1960s as part of a major redevelopment.

This farming village was, until the advent of coal mining in the area, relatively free of any kind of modern post-industrial revolution influence.

Manor Farm Cottage, at the heart of the village, is a sympathetically restored old building and a reminder of Woodhouse's long-lost past.

Woodhouse Mill is generally accepted as the area, within the City of Sheffield, to the east of the former Great Central railway line.