WEAVER (or Weever) is a scattered village, 4 ½ miles west of Middlewich, on the banks of the river Weaver, in the eastern division of the Eddisbury hundred, originally a township, was in 1892, by Order of the County Council, confirmed by Local Government Board Order No. 28,045, added to Darnhall.

Here is a Free Methodist chapel with a burial ground attached. The manor, at an early period attached to the fee of Aldford, was held under the Ardernes by a family who assumed the local name. In 55 Hen. III. (1270—1) Henry de Wever held the township of the fee of Aldford by finding two mem to guard the castle there forty days during time of war; it remained vested in the Wevers until the reign of Henry VI. when it passed by marriage with Elizabeth the daughter and eventually sole heiress, of Sir Thomas Wever kt. to Sir John Stanley kt. 3rd son of Thomas, 1st baron Stanley K.G. and ancestor of the Stanleys of Alderley Park, from whom it was purchased by the Wilbrahams, in whose possession it still remains. Weaver Hall, as first built, was a half-timber and plaster mansion of considerable extent, after the style of many other ancient buildings in this county, and was the residence of the Stanley family up to the year 1660; the present hall, which formed part of one of the wings of the old hall, was partly rebuilt in 1847, and is now occupied as a farmhouse. Roger William Wilbraham esq. J.P. of Delamere House, is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The brine used in the salt works at Winsford and neighbourhood is chiefly found in the vale of the Weaver, and in consequence of the gradual drainage, the land on its banks has sunk below the level of the river, submerging a great portion of the township.