Goostrey is a village to the east of the centre of the county. There have been traces of settlement found in the area dating back to before the Iron Age. The village appears in the Domesday Book as Gostrel which may mean Godhere's tree. A timber-framed church dedicated to St Luke was built in the village in the early 13th century though this was replaced by the current church in the 1790s.
Goostrey's economy has remained primarily agricultural in nature, with farms continuing to exist around the village to this day. Although the railway began passing through Goostrey in 1842, it had to wait until 1891 to get a station! Postwar, new housing developments increased the size of the village notably.
Visible from the village is the Lovell radio telescope at the famous Jodrell Bank Observatory which is a short distance away from the village.
