Woolston is a settlement and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington in the county of Cheshire, England.

Formerly within the historic county of Lancashire, the parish is on the north bank of the River Mersey and takes in Paddington to the south-west.

It is bounded by the River Mersey to the south, Bruche and Padgate to the west, Longbarn and Birchwood to the north and Rixton to the east.

A 1907 Victoria County History description reads:[1] The flat country is divided into fields with rather meagre hedgerows and scanty trees.

In the north of the district, there is a considerable patch of moss land and here too there is a good deal of clay in the surface soil.

[4] In 1894, Woolston with Martinscroft joined the newly formed Warrington Rural District as a civil parish, where it remained until 1933.

This area was home to a large Safeway distribution depot that was taken over by Morrisons in January 2006, and subsequently taken over by Iceland in mid-2006.

Woolston is home to a number of smaller businesses including Big Storage on the main A57 and Paragon Framing.

The headteacher, Mr Toyne won the Warrington Guardian Teacher of the month in March 2015.

[12] St Peter's Church, served by secular clergy, was built on Weir Lane, Martinscroft, in 1835 and is now a Grade II listed building.

A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built on Manchester Road, Martinscroft, in 1827 and demolished by the New Town Corporation in 1977.

[16] A Leisure Centre was built in Hall Road in 1972, as part of the New Town Development, and refurbished in 2010 and 2011 to become Woolston Neighbourhood Hub.

The Teaching Pool is 13 m by 9 m with a depth of 0.8 m to 0.9 m. There is a swimming club, Warriors of Warrington, which caters to Juniors, Beginners, Seniors, Veterans and Disabled.

[17] The track was directly north of the Grey Mist Mere Lake and the Woolston New Cut Canal.

There is also a road running from the motorway past the Grange to Birchwood and Longbarn, two areas built in the 1970s during the New Town development.

The area is served by an ante-natal clinic on Holes Lane and a GP doctors surgery located close by.