Davenport began as a township in Astbury Ancient Parish (which has had no separate civic identity since 1866.

[8] Both these "parent civil parishes" of Brereton had similar administrative histories: both were in Northwich Hundred, and they both later became members of Congleton Poor Law Union and Rural Sanitary District.

The legend is that William Brereton killed his valet in a temper after he was interrupted at his meal.

Brereton Heath is a country park and Local Nature Reserve (LNR) maintained by Cheshire East Ranger Service.

It comprises an area of lowland heath surrounding a flooded quarry from which silica sand was extracted between 1959 and 1972.