Birchwood is a civil parish in the eastern part of Warrington, Cheshire, England with a population of 11,395 as at the 2001 census. It was built during the time of much expansion in the town of Warrington as it became a "new town". Birchwood Town is separated into three residential estates: Gorse Covert (grid ref SJ665925, population 2,790), Oakwood (grid ref SJ656914, population 4,381) and Locking Stumps (grid ref SJ645918, population 2,759), with all the main facilities centred around the centre.

Birchwood is a log house recontructed in 1936 using logs from an earlier structure built in about 1836. The first log house on the site was an even earlier structure built by Caleb Birch in approximately 1800 that burned down.