Burtonwood village itself is a few miles away from the site of the former station.

The village is known for its brewery, which brews the Burtonwood ales.

In 1964 Burtonwood Breweries became a public company, but retained its head office in the village.

Winwick also borders Newton-le-Willows and Burtonwood.

It also provided aircraft maintenance support at RAF Burtonwood for C-54 Skymaster aircraft used in the Berlin Airlift.

Burtonwood was also known as Base Air Depot 1 ( BAD 1 ), although an RAF presence continued until October 1943.

MATS also used Burtonwood as a cargo and passenger transport facility until 1958, when its operations were moved to RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk.

Part of the airfield is also occupied by the motorway Welcome Break Burtonwood service station.

Burtonwood also has three nature reserves.

After months of looking for a suitable site near Henley ( during which time much of the beer was brewed at Burtonwood, Cheshire ) production was moved, along with some of the original historic Henley brewing vessels, to Refresh's Wychwood Brewery, Witney, West Oxfordshire, also home to Prince Charles ' Organic Duchy range and Wychwood's Hobgoblin & Fiddler's Elbow beers.

It also includes the villages of Burtonwood, Culcheth and Winwick.

It is still a civil parish ( now named Burtonwood and Westbrook ) and thus has its own parish council.

Burtonwood has five public houses, the Elm Tree, the Bridge Inn, the Chapel House, the Pear Tree and the Fiddle i ' th ' Bag Inn, three social clubs and three churches, St. Michael's, St. Paul's and the Methodist church.

There are two recreational parks and two primary schools, Burtonwood Community Primary School and St Paul of the Cross Primary School.

Historically within Lancashire, the name Burtonwood is known worldwide as the location of the former RAF Station Burtonwood military camp.

In 1998 the company formed a joint venture with Thomas Hardy Holdings, known as Thomas Hardy Burtonwood.

First Officer Isidro Juan Paredes of the Air Transport Auxiliary was killed on November 7, 1941, when his aircraft overshot a runway and crashed at RAF Burtonwood.

RAF Burtonwood was built on the outskirts in 1939.

Burtonwood airfield was opened on 1 January 1940 as a servicing and storage centre for the modification of British aircraft.

According to some sources Burtonwood was placed strategically so that it was out of range of Luftwaffe bombers, but this is not true as several Nazi raids were made on the facility.

The idea was that in the event of an emergency, US troops in the USA that were earmarked for NATO service in Europe would fly over and pick up their kit from Burtonwood before going on to the battle front.

Also, on the recent housing development, Chapelford-built on the old Burtonwood Airbase site, are a number of boulevards such as Boston and Santa Rosa Boulevard, built in reference to the American history associated from World War 2 on the site.

Closed for runway repairs throughout 1958, the Military Air Transport Service transferred its main United Kingdom terminal to Mildenhall from RAF Burtonwood on 1 March 1959, and the base became " The Gateway to the United Kingdom ", for most U. S. military personnel and dependants arriving or departing the United Kingdom since.

RAF Mildenhall became the home for the Military Air Transport Service ( later Military Airlift Command ) main air passenger terminal for the United Kingdom on 1 March 1959 with the 1625th Support Squadron providing military personnel and dependents service at the terminal with the drawdown at the Burtonwood Air Depot.

Before settling on the site which had formerly housed the Tetley Walker brewery, a site in Burtonwood was considered but these plans were rejected.

On 3 November 1948, USAF Boeing RB-29A Superfortress 44-61999, of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division, Strategic Air Command ; crashed at Higher Shelf Stones, Bleaklow, whilst on route from Scampton to Burtonwood.

In mid 2007, Scottish & Newcastle moved production of John Smith's Cask from Tadcaster to Burtonwood near Warrington, and production of John Smith's Magnet ( 4 per cent ABV ) to Camerons Brewery of Hartlepool.

There is a small bus station in Tamworth Street, with a number of bus routes running around the town, and out of town services connecting neighbouring Burtonwood, Haydock, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lowton, Garswood and major towns of Warrington, St. Helens, Wigan and Leigh.

In 1948 the Americans occupied RAF stations including Fairford, Brize Norton, Burtonwood Greenham Common, Mildenhall, Lakenheath and Woodbridge to build up a deterrent in Europe against the Soviets.

RAF Burtonwood was a Royal Air Force station in England, 2 miles north-west of Warrington, Lancashire.

Burtonwood was the largest airfield in Europe during the war with the most USAAF personnel and aircraft maintenance facilities.

By the end of the war 18, 000 servicemen were stationed at Burtonwood.

During their leave periods, American servicemen from Burtonwood virtually took over the centre of nearby Warrington.

With the end of hostilities, control of Burtonwood was returned to the RAF in June 1946 and became an equipment depot operated by No 276 Maintenance Unit.

In May 1947 additional B-29s were sent to Burtonwood to keep up the presence of a training programme.

During the 1950s, European-based USAF aircraft were overhauled or modified at Burtonwood, including Republic F-84 Thunderjets, F-84F Thunderstreaks and North American F-86 Sabres.

Major USAF use of Burtonwood ended in April 1959 when the flightline was closed although some use of the runway was made by gliders of the RAF Air Training Corps.

US forces returned to Burtonwood in 1966 when France withdrew its military support for NATO.

Burtonwood was used as a receiving depot for USAF and US Army equipment and supplies being withdrawn from their former French NATO facilities.

Afterwards, the US Army took over the base and renamed it Burtonwood Army Depot.

The Army developed Burtonwood into a storage and forward supply depot operated by the 47th Support Group.