Population 4,294 (2011) Civil parish Disley Region North West Local time Wednesday 1:23 PM Ceremonial county Cheshire | OS grid reference SJ972845 Unitary authority Country England Dialling code 01663 UK parliament constituency Macclesfield | |
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Weather 11°C, Wind W at 24 km/h, 72% Humidity Post town Metropolitan Borough of Stockport | ||
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Disley is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. 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. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 4,294. 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.
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- Map of Disley Stockport UK
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- History
- Governance
- Past
- Present
- Points of interest
- References
Map of Disley, Stockport, UK
Disley railway station is on the Manchester to Buxton line, with through trains to Preston and Blackpool.
The parish includes part of the neighbouring village of Newtown, the bulk of which is in Derbyshire.
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History
Its Anglo-Saxon name was Dystiglegh meaning wood or clearing by a mound or possibly "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.
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 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.
Governance
The parish of Disley 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 Borough of Macclesfield, whilst retaining a parish council.
In April 2008 a referendum was announced for Disley residents because the Borough of Macclesfield was to become part of the new Cheshire East unitary authority as a result of major local government changes in Cheshire in April 2009. Some residents believed that the village would be better served if it were part of the neighbouring boroughs of Stockport in Greater Manchester or High Peak in Derbyshire.
On 8 May 2008 this referendum was held, with an overwhelming result in favour of staying within Cheshire, with less than 1/3 of the electors wanting to become part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport and an even lower proportion of the population wishing the village to become part of Derbyshire's High Peak Borough.
Macclesfield Borough Council was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the new unitary authority of Cheshire East.
Past
Nearby Wyberslegh Hall (sometimes spelled Wybersley Hall), which stands between Disley and High Lane, was the birthplace of the Anglo-American novelist Christopher Isherwood.
British historian A.J.P. Taylor bought a house in Higher Disley in 1935, for £525, so he could be close to University of Manchester when he was lecturing. Dylan Thomas visited Taylor, first staying for a month and drinking "on a monumental scale", and later returning, in the autumn of 1946, homeless and with his wife Caitlin, with Margaret Taylor allowing them to stay in the summerhouse in the garden.
The playwright, critic, essayist and novelist Allan Monkhouse lived at The Grey Cottage on Jackson's Edge Road from 1893 to 1902, and then at Meadow Bank on the same road until his death in 1936.
Lord John Hunt who led the first successful Mount Everest expedition in 1953 also lived in Disley.
The director and writer Ian Clark was brought up in Disley and attended Disley Primary School.
Present
Disley is also the home of
Points of interest
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. The Rams head is now a restaurant and pub.
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.
Disley is home to Disley Cricket Club a member of the TACS Cheshire Cricket League, playing their home games at Disley Amalgamated Sports Club (DASC). The 1st XI play in the Division 1 having won the Division 2 championship in 2014 and Division 3 in 2013.
Moorside Golf Club, Higher Disley (now defunct) first appeared in the 1930s. The club continued until the late 1950s.