[2] Beeston is listed in the Domesday Book in 1086 as a parish within the ancient hundred of Rushton in Cheshire.

30 persons were employed in domestic service in the parish at the time as well, possibly indicating the presence of a country estate.

There was also a schoolmaster, an innkeeper and a shopkeeper, which suggests that there was a school, an inn and a village shop present in 1881.

[6] The overall trend for in Beeston has been that the population has declined since the 1881 census, with approximately 188 people living in the village in 2011.

The village was once served by Beeston Castle and Tarporley railway station on the Chester to Crewe main line.