RAF Calveley was a flight-training station during the Second World War, and the Mark III radio telescope stood on the airfield site in 1966–96.

The modern civil parish includes Wardle Industrial Estate and is otherwise largely agricultural.

[16] 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.

[20] The Weaver Way footpath loops through the south east of the parish, following the Shropshire Union and Middlewich Branch canal towpaths.

Much of the area to the south west of the Shropshire Union/A51 is an industrial estate, accessed via Green Lane.

Two water bodies lie between Wardle Covert and the Shropshire Union, and numerous small meres and ponds are scattered across the farmland.

[23] Wardle Old Hall, a red-brick former farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, stands by the canal.

[25][32] A grade-II-listed, red-sandstone pinfold stands by the A51; used to confine straying cattle, it dates from the early 19th century and is one of the few examples to have survived in Cheshire.