Originally Church Minshull had the name ‘Maneshale’ in the Domesday Book.

There are several beautiful Tudor houses in the village centre. A notable one being Church Farm, opposite the Church, which has a distinctive Magpie Porch. This house is reputedly that which Elizabeth Minshull was living in when she married the poet John Milton. On the Winsford Road you will find Paradise Lane!

 Recorded on the 1871 census is a John Eachus born in Minshull then living at Rudheath with wife Sarah and 3 children. In the centre of the Village is a lane over the River Weaver, called Eachus Lane.

 The population in 1851 was 380, the population at the 2001 census was 429, The Village contains 204 residences of which 60 are on Home Farm Park and 20 on Village Farm — the remaining population are dispersed throughout the village area..

 Recorded in November 1824 were many trades and crafts carried out in the village, namely, Blacksmith, Wheelwright, Joiners, Cordwainer, Gamekeeper, Bricklayer, Weaver, Tailor, Carrier, Victualler, Thatcher a Laundry Woman and many domestic servants. There was a Shop Keeper, Post Mistress, Butcher, 2 School Mistresses and one Schoolmaster, Farmers and Farm Workers, Paupers and Spinsters. When the railway works came to Crewe in 1843, men from Church Minshull walked to Crewe to work in the heavy engineering workshops.

 The village school was started in 1785 in Sunnybank, which was then called School House. This became the headmaster's house when the "new" school was built in 1858 as a gift from Henry Brooke. The school was closed in 1982.

 As in so many small communities travel has become easier and the need to be self sufficient has ceased. Closure of the Primary School in 1982 and of the Shop, Post Office and Petrol Filling Station at Lea Green later, made travel out of the Village essential. Over the years changes happen sometimes imperceptibly, the old coach house has been converted into a single dwelling and new individual houses have been built, others have been demolished. The biggest impact on the centre of the Village is the development of Village Farm from dairy to housing. At Village Farm 20 dwellings have been made by converting the farm house and existing barns and adding 12 new houses. The new residents of Church Minshull were welcomed into the community by a Ploughman’s Lunch in the Village Hall on 21st November 1999.

The Village Hall was modernised in 2003 thanks to a grant and hard work from locals who volunteered time and energy to making it the heart of the village.