WINNINGTON, a township in Great Budworth parish, Cheshire; on the river Weaver, 1 mile NW of Northwich. Acres, 597. Real property, £5,696. Pop., 460. Houses, 91. The manor belonged anciently to the Wynningtons; passed to the Warburtons and the Pennants; and belongs now to Lord Stanley of Alderley. W. Hall is an ancient mansion, now used as a boarding-school. W. bridge was the scene of a sharp conflict in the civil wars of Charles I. There are several salt-works.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))