Between 1996 and 2006, a large housing development was built on farmland to the northwest of the village centre.

The estate is known as Kingsmead and is separated from the historic village of Davenham by the A556 Northwich bypass.

Davenham parish council along with Moulton parish council decided in 2007 to part-fund a Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) in order to keep a police presence in Davenham and Kingsmead.

The village has a football team in Davenham FC, who most notably reached the final of the 1887 Welsh FA Cup.

The church of St. Wilfrid goes back to the Domesday period but the current edifice is the fourth on the site, dating from a major reconstruction between 1844 and 1870 in the Victorian Gothic revival style.