Nearby villages include Aston, Broomhall Green, Hankelow, Ravensmoor, Sound Heath and Stapeley.

[5] A famous member of that family was Sir John Bromley, who served in the wars in France and, according to Hall's History of Nantwich, "heroically recovered the British Standard at Corbie" in 1415, just before the Battle of Agincourt.

[10] Part of Baddington and the adjacent parish of Austerson was forest until at least the mid-17th century, with wood being used as fuel for salt production in nearby Nantwich.

[15] Transport connections improved in the 19th century with the construction first of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, now part of the Shropshire Union (1835),[16] and then the now-dismantled Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (1863).

[18] From 1974 the civil parish was served by Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council, which was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the unitary authority of Cheshire East.

The Welsh Marches Railway runs immediately to the north-west of the parish, being less than 50 metres beyond the boundary at the closest point.

In 1941, an RAF camp was established there, with a fixed ground-controlled intercept radar station, one of a network of twenty-one across the country.

After the war, the site was equipped with a partially underground bunker protecting an air-defence radar installation, part of the ROTOR network.

In 1976–84, the abandoned RAF site was converted into a nuclear bunker complex, which was the Home Defence regional headquarters for a large area of the North West until 1993.

In addition to the Hack Green installations, the museum houses Ballistic Missile Early Warning System equipment from RAF High Wycombe, as well as decommissioned nuclear weapons from various sites.