The current parish covers Tarvin, Duddon, Clotton, Stapleford, Burton, Hoofield and Oscroft.

They built a road from Deva (Chester) to Condate (Northwich) which passed Tarvin about a kilometre to the north.

[5] The Gowy was later the boundary between the Saxon land divisions (hundreds) in this area, which was a part of the Kingdom of Mercia known as the Wreocensæte.

[6][7] Tarvin appears as a substantial manor in the Domesday Book of 1086 (listed as Terve),[8] the largest community in the Hundred of Rushton with 30 households.

According to Ormerod[9] "Tarvin is one of the few Cheshire manors which experienced no change in its proprietor at the Conquest, being the property of the Bishop of the diocese, who retained his former possessions after that event."

[11] The hundreds of Cheshire from this time were Broxton, Bucklow, Eddisbury, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Northwich and Wirral.

Apart from Terve and the current name Tarvin, the village has also been referred to as Tervyn (e.g. in records of an assault on a monk in 1326[12]) and Terfyn in the accounts of a trip from Chester to London in 1811,[13] in which is it again suggested that Terfyn comes from the "British" word for "boundary", though in this case it is suggested this might refer to the boundary of Delamere Forest.

[13] The prebend occurs at a similar date to the changes to the borders of Cheshire due to yielding some hundreds to Wales; furthermore Bishop Alexander de Stavenby was a diplomat acting for King Henry III both with France and spent time in Wales trying to renew truces.

Ormerod's accounts show that this relationship between Tarvin and the Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry (the two bishoprics were merged in 1228) became long term, and continued until 10 April 1550 (well into the English Reformation), when "Richard, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, granted this manor to Sir John Savage".

Having given £40 in his lifetime for the building of a schoolhouse, his will of 1641[15] gave a further £20 for the finishing of it, the first schoolmaster to be nominated and chosen by his two executors, who were also his kinsmen.

One of the masters (for 36 years) was John Thomasen (died 1740, aged 54), described as the finest penman in England, especially known for his transcriptions of the Greek poets in authentic characters: in 1714 he produced a handwritten copy of the Eikon Basilike for Queen Anne.

The Parliamentary governor of Tarvin was sufficiently confident in the strength of his fortifications and the size of his garrison that he refused to surrender to the Cavaliers even when it was known that Charles I was in the area with an army.

On the last day of April 1752 at about noon, the Great Fire of Tarvin broke out in the north-west part of the village.

The turnpike from Lichfield direction, via Nantwich and Tarporley, was subject to an act in 1769 that decided it would be re-routed via Tarvin instead of the former route to Chester via Stapleford.

From 1875, Tarvin was indirectly served by Barrow for Tarvin railway station more than two miles (3 km) distant on the Cheshire Lines Committee route from Chester to Manchester; the line remains open but the station closed in June 1953, though it still stands albeit in poor condition and is now privately owned.

The Tarvin Neighbourhood Plan is currently being drafted, with informal consultation due to take place in 2018.

The Tarvin Community Woodland runs for about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) alongside the A51, and covers 13 acres (5.3 ha), with a footpath and a bridleway.

In 1997, the land was granted to Tarvin Parish Council as a public amenity by the Highways Agency, as it was at the time.

Tarvin Online[25] is a community-run social media and website forum that provides the latest news and information in the Village.

[26][27] The village is in the Tarvin and Kelsall electoral ward as part of the Cheshire West and Chester Council.