WOODHOUSES, a township in the parish of MAYFIELD, southern division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from Ashbourn, containing 26 inhabitants. It is in the honour of Tutburyj duchy of'Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under, 40s.