Saughall was a fishing village until cut off from the sea by land reclamation in the Dee estuary.

[8] The civil parish of Saughall was created on 1 April 1948[9] by uniting both settlements, with a combined population of 1,518 in 1951.

In late 2006 Cheshire County Council agreed to embark on a process that would ultimately lead to the merger of the two schools.

It was the location of the murder of a farm labourer by two fellow workers after a disagreement over earnings near the mill.

After their trial and execution, their bodies were hung in chains, or "gibbeted" from a nearby ash tree, as a warning to other criminals.