Chester Heights is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,531 at the 2010 census. Most of the borough lies south of U.S. 1, about a mile southwest of Wawa.

The chronicles of Chester Heights predates grants of William Penn, when the Swedes had penetrated some keep apart from inland from the Delaware River and had found the rich soil categorically conducive to productive farming. To a remarkable extent, the Place had continued to be fittingly used until the last decade. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the borough was ration of Aston Township, though this northernmost section of Aston did not have a village aspect as such. With the advent of a railroad, which made its first run-through upon Christmas Day 1833, a engagement of houses developed. With the reach of the automobile, a unity of homes sprang taking place along the oldest road in the borough. That route, now Valleybrook Road, was subsequent to known as the “Logtown Road” and was one of the archaic routes from Chester treaty to the interior. It wanders higher than and along the West Branch of Chester Creek and is noted for its abrupt curves at the borough’s southern end.

An 1836 researcher building upon Valleybrook Road and Llewellyn Road was, in its day, rented by its owners to Aston for $2 a month for use as the university for this area. It was subsequent to known as the Logtown School and changed to the Chester Heights School in 1880. A second, much later stone school building stands in its place today. The borough was the Fourth Ward of Aston and had been referred to for some mature as Chester Heights and Wawa. It was in the northern or “Wawa” area that, over the like one hundred years or more, several large home parcels were acquired for summer residences. To date, most of these tracts have remained relatively unchanged, though they are now used as year-round private residences. (“Wawa” was the Indian pronounce for wild goose.)

In 1852 the cornerstone of St. Thomas the Apostle Church was laid, to house a Roman Catholic congregation that had been meeting on the property of the Willcox family since 1728. It stands today later than the complement of a liberal church, parochial university and residences. In 1872 an connection of Methodists purchased a farm in Aston, incorporating as the Chester Heights Camp-Meeting Associations, and it nevertheless convenes each July for religious retreats. The borough of Chester Heights was officially incorporated in 1945.