The village is approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) to the south of Chester, on the east bank of the River Dee.

[2] Between 1960 and 1991, the village was the location of a Royal Observer Corps monitoring bunker, to be used in the event of a nuclear attack.

[6] Most of the building stock was constructed as a designed village in the middle of the 19th century by Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, in almost rectangular form.

These include the Grade II listed St John's church[8][9] and the Grosvenor Arms public house.

[10] The River Dee outside the village is crossed by the Aldford Iron Bridge, which was built in 1824 by William Hazledine for the 1st Marquis.