Wybunbury's fifteenth-century church tower is the last visible remnant of the medieval St Chad's Church, and its fame in Cheshire rests less on any ghost story than on an unusually well-documented engineering oddity: the tower was built on ground so unstable that it began to lean, over the following centuries, further and further out of true, at its most extreme reaching more than six feet out of the perpendicular. The lean became so locally notorious that it produced its own Cheshire saying, "as crooked as Wybunbury Tower", used well beyond the village itself to describe anything conspicuously askew.
The tower's most remarkable chapter came in 1834, when the rest of the medieval church was being taken down and rebuilt. The architect and builder James Trubshaw, already known for inventive structural solutions, proposed correcting the lean not by demolishing the tower but by carefully lowering the subsoil beneath its foundations on the side away from the lean, theorising that the structure would settle itself back toward vertical. To the visible astonishment of the watching townspeople, it worked: the tower slowly and steadily began to right itself. Unlike much of the folklore recorded in this survey, the Wybunbury story is grounded in solid documentary and engineering history rather than oral tradition alone, which is reflected in the documented confidence rating here, even though it belongs to this project as a genuine local oddity rather than a haunting or a legend in the conventional sense.
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