Woodside, Telford

Woodside is a residential area within the civil parish of Madeley in Shropshire, England. It is also the name of an electoral ward of both Madeley Town Council and the borough of Telford and Wrekin. The population of the borough ward at the 2021 Census is given as 7,597.

In 1963, Dawley New Town (soon to be known as Telford) was designated in the area surrounding towns and villages such as Ironbridge, Dawley and Wellington. The intention was to bring jobs to the area as well as houses to accommodate the thousands of workers being attracted to the Telford.

For the less well-off inhabitants of the then new town, there needed to be council housing available. The Woodside estate was among the council housing projects first planned in the development of Telford new town. It was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was the largest housing estate planned by Telford Development Corporation. The principal idea behind the layout of the estate was to segregate motor traffic from pedestrians. Architectural historian, John Newman describes the south east part of Woodside as the "boldest experiment in housing layout in Telford". It takes the form of "exaggerated" stepped V-shaped blocks of terraced housing with windows in the gable ends.