It was in the 1930s that Woodley and Crampmoor were complete separate as not many large housing estates were around at this time and here instead were lush green pastures and a few small dwellings mainly for gardeners and farm workers that worked at the local big houses or estates such as Woodley court which was converted to a nursing home and Woodley Grange now a rest home.

A gravel road ran though the fields from Crampmoor to the Winchester road and this led to the church of St Swithun  which was built in 1856 and which had just closed as a church school, during school days the sanctuary was closed off and where the lectern once stood was a doorway to the small home of the headmistress and is now the vestry, on the way home the children would stop off at Miss Robert's sweetshop which is now a private house.

By the Hunters Inn was the Woodley Village Hall, there was a semi detached house which was a 'Miss Read' school and small cottages that housed up to ten children with oil lamps and wood fired stoves or open fired that provide the heat, but there was no mains drainage and no bathrooms, Food was supplemented by vegetables grown in the gardens.