 The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 567.The village appears in the Domesday Book as "Lege", there were only five households and the manor was held by William FitzNigel of Halton.Originally in the parish of Great Budworth, an ancient chapel of ease in Little Leigh was fully rebuilt in 1712 and was described as "a mean building of brick, standing defenceless in the highway".