[2] Since 1995, significant archaeological activity has been conducted in the area, first by the University of Liverpool and later by the independent group known as the Poulton Research Project.

In the Sub-Roman Britain period, Iron Age roundhouse ditches, Briquetage and animal bones have also been found suggesting the area was once an important site for the processing and preserving of meat for trading.

Although it is believed to have been a substantial site, only a small amount of ground level masonry survives.

Several of the buildings in the former parish were commissed by Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, and designed by Douglas and Fordham, a well-known Cheshire architects' practice.

[5][6] In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson described the settlement in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as: POULTON, a township in Pulford parish, Cheshire; on an affluent of the river Dee, 4¼ miles S of Chester.