Lea-by-Backford is a hamlet and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

It is situated between Chester and Ellesmere Port, west of the A41 trunk road and to the north of the Shropshire Union Canal.

[1] In 1086, the settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book as Wisdelea.

[2] Lea-by-Backford, including part of the hamlet of Dunkirk, was a township within the Backford parish of the Wirral Hundred.

[3] Media related to Lea by Backford at Wikimedia Commons