Antrobus is listed as a township of
Great Budworth parish on Cheshire's
tithe map, in the
Bucklow Hundred and under the deanery of
Frodsham. In 1894, Antrobus became a parish in its own right and a part of the
Runcorn Rural District. In 1936, the neighbouring parishes of Crowley and Seven Oaks were abolished and brought under the control of Antrobus. Through the 20th century, usage of the term Seven Oaks to describe the south-west of Antrobus declined, and much of that area is now known as Frandley. Seven Oaks has become truncated to Sevenoaks and now refers to the small hamlet surrounding the former Sevenoaks Saddlery and sawmill at the northernmost end of Gibb Hill. The north-easternmost area of the parish was formerly taken up by a portion of the
Arley estate, including all of the village of Arley itself, Crowley Hall Lodge and the surrounding farms. However, when Runcorn Rural District was abolished in 1974, Antrobus was moved into
Vale Royal and neighbouring
Aston by Budworth (within which the rest of the Arley estate was contained) was transferred into the
borough of Macclesfield. This made the Antrobus portion the only remaining part of the estate not under Macclesfield's control. In 1978, for the ease of estate management and the paying of tax, Aston-by-Budworth Parish Council requested that the portion of Antrobus east of Arley Brook, Lodge Lane, and Caldwell's Gate Lane be transferred to their control. The village was struck by
an F1/T3 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day. ==Culture==