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Disley
Disley shown within Cheshire
Population	4301[1]
OS grid reference	SJ972845
Parish	Disley
District	Macclesfield
Shire county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Stockport
Postcode district	SK12
Dialling code	01663
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Macclesfield
European Parliament	North West England
List of places: UK • England • Cheshire

Coordinates: 53°21′29″N 2°02′36″W / 53.357911, -2.043458

Disley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.^[2][3] It is located on the very edge of the Peak District, in the Goyt Valley, very close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills, and south of Stockport, Greater Manchester. To the north of the village, the River Goyt and the Peak Forest Canal, which opened in 1800, passes along the edge of the village. Today it is a dormitory village retaining a semi-rural character.

Disley railway station is on the Manchester to Buxton line, with through trains to Preston and Blackpool.

The parish includes most of the neighbouring village of Newtown.

Contents 1 History 2 People 2.1 Past 2.2 Present 3 Points of interest 4 References 5 See also 6 External links

Its Anglo-Saxon name was Dystiglegh meaning "windy settlement". In the 13th Century, in the time of Edward I, there are references to confirmatory grants of land made to Jordan de Dystelegh of Disley Hall and Roger de Stanley-de-Dystelegh of Stanley Hall in the district, pointing to even older local settlements. It later had the name Dystelegh.^[2]

Sir Piers Legh of Lyme founded St. Mary-the-Virgin Church in Disley (completed 1524 and consecrated as parish church in 1558. The earliest parish register is from 1591.

The parish was included in the 19th century as one of three parishes in Hayfield rural sanitary district, alongside Hayfield and Mellor in Derbyshire. In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, rural sanitary districts became rural districts, but were required to be entirely within one county or another - this led to Disley, the only Cheshire parish of the sanitary district, to form the Disley Rural District on its own - one of only a few single-parish rural districts to exist. This remained in existence until 1974, when it was merged into the new Macclesfield district, whilst retaining a parish council.^[2][3]

The village had at least one cotton mill by the mid-19th century. As the cotton industry declined, more varied employment became the norm. In 2005, there is a paper mill and some light engineering works, but most people travel out to work.

Disley is the birthplace of the Anglo-American novelist Christopher Isherwood. A.J.P. Taylor lived there, and Dylan Thomas visited him there. Lord John Hunt who led the first successful Mount Everest expedition in 1953 also lived in Disley.

Disley is also the home of Big Brother loser Anouska Golebiewski, the BBC's Bargain Hunt programme presenter David Dickinson, who had his first antique shop here, and paralympic swimmer Sarah Bailey

The "Rams Head" inn c.1650 at the centre of the village was formerly a lodge belonging to the Lyme Park estate. It became a main coaching stop on the Manchester to London route.

Lyme Park is not located in the civil parish of Disley, but in the civil parish of Lyme Handley. However, it is sufficiently close to be associated with Disley. The hall was used by the BBC as a setting in its adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

• St Mary's Church, Disley

• Disley Online. Disley Parish Council.
• Disley Cricket Club. Disley Cricket Club.
• D&C Athletic Football Club. Disley Football Club.
• Disley Baptist Church. Disley Baptist Church.

Coordinates: 53°22′N, 2°04′W

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