HistoryNamed after John Woodward, a pioneer of Orange. He lived at first in a slab building not far from the present gates of Wolaroi College on the Bathurst Road. There he conducted a small store and handled the postal business of the time. Later he owned a store on the site of the present Metropolitan Hotel. He was Mayor of Orange in 1870.
* Folster, William 'Links with history in street names' ''Central Western Daily'' 5 January 1949
