Ridley is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Bulkeley and Ridley,[1] in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies to the north east of Malpas and to the west of Nantwich.

[2] 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.

[9] There is a low hill in the east of the civil parish, with a high point of 127 m at SJ567539, at the north part of Chesterton Wood.

The ground slopes gently downwards towards the Weaver in the west of the civil parish, with a low point of around 90 metres.

Above the archway on the south face is a carved stone tablet bearing the escutcheon of the Egerton family, flanked with horn players and animals.

A T-shaped building of rock-faced sandstone incorporating a teacher's house, the school is in Gothic style and dates from 1876.