[1] Its amenities include a school, a church and a public house called the White Horse.

The River Amber valley was flooded in 1958 and completely submerged farmland, roads and part of the Ashover Light Railway.

The Ogston Reservoir also destroyed most of the village of Woolley, including the Woolley House Hydro, the village store, the blacksmiths, the joiners, the laundry, the sheep dip and Napoleons Home, the local public house.

Over the years Woolley Moor has had a number of shops and a post office although these have been transformed into normal houses since the 1980s.

There was also another public house named 'The New Napoleon' which closed for good after a period of uncertainty in the late 2000s.