The civil parish also includes Westbrook, which is a council ward and suburb of Warrington.

[1] Burtonwood was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Warrington, in the West Derby Hundred of Lancashire.

The village of Burtonwood saw its greatest increase in housing and population post 1945 when the locally named 'miners estate' was built and vast numbers of people took employment in the collieries of Bold and Clockface both in the neighbouring Parish of Bold in St Helens.

The population of the parish of Burtonwood continued to grow in 1951 partly due to the arrival of the United States Air Force (USAF) personnel and the but dropped from 8,238 to 4,899 in 1971, before rising to 11,265 today[1] as a result of housing development on the old RAF station site.

In 1964 Burtonwood Breweries became a public company, but retained its head office in the village.

There is also a large Co-operative store brand new since 2018 (Chapel Lane), as you walk into the village there is a fish and chip shop, a Village Barbers, a beauty salon and a Lloyd's chemist and a post office, located on Chapel Lane.

The village is small, with only three bus routes through it, (Arriva North West 329 to St Helens, Warrington's Own Buses 24E to Newton Le-Willows which only runs through the village twice a day (subject to rural bus grant) and Ogden 141 (St Helens to Newton) run on behalf of Merseytravel).

The nearest railway station was Collins Green, but is now St. Helens Junction, two miles to the north-west of the village.