It was only with the establishment of a parish and the building of Christ Church Padgate that a recognisable community arose.

This was the home of the Woolston Rovers rugby league side and also the Cheshire Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps with their headquarters Kennedy Hall.

Greenall's Padgate St Oswald's first team play at Tetley Walker's Club, Long Lane, Warrington.

The site of the former RAF station was demolished in the mid-to-late 1970s, and has since been largely covered by a housing estate, bordered by Bennett's Rec and the railway line to the south, Fearnhead to the north-east, and Blackbrook and Cinnamon Brow to the north.

Although the RAF site is now largely invisible its legacy lives on in local place names – Insall Road running east–west in parallel to the A574 is named after the one-time commanding officer of the site, and the local high school was known from 2009 to 2013 as Lysander Community High, the Westland Lysander being one of the aircraft linked to the former RAF base.

Remnants of the camp's presence can still be seen in some parts of the land, for example the brickwork from the rifle range can still be seen close to the railway footbridge in the south-west corner of the former site.

The University of Chester announced the closure of the campus on 22 January 2021 outlining intentions to relocate teaching to buildings in Warrington town centre.

Five kilometres (3 mi) east of Warrington town centre, Padgate lies between the Liverpool and Greater Manchester urban areas.

[2] Padgate has an unstaffed railway station on the Manchester-Liverpool line served by the local stopping service.