Woodhall Lane

The name

Woodhall Lane takes its name from Woodhall Spa Golf Club. Neil Hotchkin sold it to the English Golf Union in 1995 and it is now the National Golf Centre, home of England Golf.

Where the club's facts come from: History | Woodhall Spa Golf Club, the club's own history.

How sure we are of the match: Strong

The estate's streets were named after golf courses. The streets page explains how each match was made.

In the story

• Building the Estate: The estate goes up
  Families were in Woodhall Lane by July 1948, and others remember moving to Caldwell Road, Liphook Road and Kilmarnock Road that year.
• Getting about: The new station
  Leaving by the proper route meant a long walk round to Woodhall Lane and the roads north of it, so some passengers crossed the live rails and climbed a fence instead, and a number were electrocuted.
• Change and renewal: South Oxhey today
  The estate also reaches into Oxhey Hall and Hayling ward, which takes in Hayling Road, and Carpenders Park ward, which takes in streets such as Woodhall Lane, so no single figure covers it all.
• Rebuilding the centre: Phase 3: Lidl and Tom Lake Way
  Our Oxhey's photographs of the old post office corner were taken on 26 November and 2 December 2020, as the demolition got under way, and a pair taken from Woodhall Lane show how the skyline changed once the last block went on 4 February 2021.
• Woodhall Lane and the concrete houses
  A Stent house of precast concrete on the corner of Woodhall Lane was photographed in 1948.
• Woodhall Primary School
  Families were living in Woodhall Lane by July 1948. Before enough local schools were built, many children from the estate travelled to schools in Watford or even back in London.
• Little Oxhey Lane shops
  A view over the houses towards Woodhall Lane was taken from the balcony of the shops in 1968.

On the timeline

• 1948 Families are living in Woodhall Lane by July, and others remember moving into Caldwell Road, Liphook Road and Kilmarnock Road during the year.

Close by

Buildings

• Woodhall Lane and the concrete houses 40 m
• Woodhall Primary School 280 m
• Carpenders Park and South Oxhey Methodist Church 310 m
• The Clitheroe Club 330 m
• Nanscott House and Beck Mason House 340 m

Ancient woods

• Sandpit Wood, railway strip 90 m
• Pond Wood 360 m
• Oxhey Woods, central part (Ashen Spring) 760 m

Walk stops

• Clitheroe Gardens 330 m
  Schools, churches and shops walk
• The Dick Whittington 410 m
  Schools, churches and shops walk
• Pond Wood 410 m
  The heart of the estate walk

Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.