The hamlet lies on the B5132 road, approximately 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Chester and north of the village of Mickle Trafford.

[1] Wimbolds Trafford was recorded in the Domesday Book with a population of three households of "two smallholders and one riders".

[4] Wimbolds Trafford was historically a township in the ancient parish of Thornton-le-Moors, which formed part of the Eddisbury Hundred of Cheshire.

The population of the township or civil parish recorded in selected censuses up to 2011 was as follows:[11] This graph shows occupation data for both males and females in 1881.

[13] As of 2025 the venue is used as a National Communities Resource Centre, which is a registered charity offering training and support to those living and working in low-income areas throughout the United Kingdom.