[4] Willaston falls in the parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich,[5] which has been represented by Connor Naismith since the 2024 General Election.

[citation needed] At this time, Willaston was a remote, sparsely populated community with no village centre.

These boundaries did not change until 1936, when local government decided to transfer some of Willaston's land to the expanding communities of Nantwich and Stapeley.

The Sneyd family lived at Keele Hall in Staffordshire and were the major landowners in Willaston until the middle of the 19th century.

[citation needed] Although Willaston had a number of farmsteads in the Middle Ages, most of the surrounding landscape was uncultivated.

However, this began to change as more common land fell into private ownership during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The process (known as 'enclosure') brought major changes to rural communities like Willaston, as individual plots of land were fenced off and used for arable farming, meadows and the grazing of livestock.

[citation needed] The medieval moated site of the Chanu family was lost during the construction of the Nantwich by-pass in 1989.

Decommissioned by British Telecom in 2010, it was then purchased by Willaston Parish Council and turned into a book exchange, the 'book box'.

It was started in 1980 by John Bailey and the first event was won with a total of 511 worms by Tom Shufflebotham - a record that stood until 2009.