Disley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is located on the very edge of the Peak District, in 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. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... Macclesfield is a local government district, borough and parliamentary constituency in Cheshire England. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and South and West Yorkshire. ... The River Goyt is a river in Derbyshire in north west England. ... Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Stockport is a large town in the north west of England. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England and has a population of 2. ... The River Goyt is a river in Derbyshire in north west England. ... South portal of Hyde Bank Tunnel, early 20th century Greens Hall Bridge near Disley, early 20th century The Peak Forest Canal runs from a junction with the Ashton Canal at the southern end of the Tame Aqueduct at Dukinfield through Newton, Hyde, Woodley, Romiley, Marple, Strines, Disley, New Mills, Furness... Commuters waiting for the morning train in Maplewood, New Jersey A bedroom community, dormitory town, or commuter town is a community that is primarily residential in character, with most of its workers commuting to a nearby town or city to earn their livelihood. ...

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.

History

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. (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ... Edward I (17 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), popularly known as Longshanks[1] and Hammer of the Scots,[2] achieved fame as the monarch who conquered Wales and who kept Scotland under English domination during his lifetime. ...

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 south front of Lyme Park, Cheshire as rebuilt by Giacomo Leoni. ... Events March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. ... A parish church is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. ... Events January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. ... Events June - Capture of Zutphen by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau. ...

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. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hayfield from the northwest Hayfield (SK037870) is a village and civil parish in the borough of High Peak, in the county of Derbyshire, England. ... Sanitary Districts were established in England and Wales in 1875 and in Ireland in 1878. ... Mellor is a village close to Stockport, Greater Manchester, in England. ... The Local Government Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. ... In local government on the British Isles, a rural district was a predominantly rural area used for local government. ... Macclesfield is a local government district, borough and parliamentary constituency in Cheshire England. ... A parish council is a council of members of a particular parish or religious community who have a responsibility to administrate the affairs of that community. ...

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. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

People

Past

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. A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Christopher Isherwood (left) and W.H. Auden (right), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Christopher Isherwood (prior to 1946 Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986), Anglo-American novelist, was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lane, in the north west of... For others named John Taylor, see John Taylor. ... Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer. ... Lord John Hunt (June 22, 1910 - 8 November 1998) was a British officer who is best known as the leader of the 1953 expedition to Mount Everest. ... Everest redirects here. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Present

Disley is also the home of Big Brother loser Anouska Golbieski, the BBC's Bargain Hunt programme presenter David Dickinson, who had his first antique shop here, and paralympic swimmer Sarah Bailey Big Brother is a reality television series broadcast on Channel 4, and S4C in Wales, in which a number of contestants live in isolation from the outside world in a custom built house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize... Bargain Hunt is a daytime television programme on BBC1, in which two teams (the Reds and the Blues), both made up of two people, are given £300 (originally £200) each with which to buy a number of items from bric-a-brac sales and attempt to make their money back... David Dickinson David Dickinson (born David Gulessarian, 16 August, 1941 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English antiques expert and television presenter of Armenian ancestry. ... Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are an official equivalent of the Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities. ... Swimming is the method by which humans (or other animals) move themselves through water. ...

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. Year 1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... The south front of Lyme Park, Cheshire as rebuilt by Giacomo Leoni. ... In the United Kingdom, from approximately the mid-seventeenth century for a period of about 200 years, the Coaching Inn was a vital part of the inland transport infrastructure. ... Manchester City Centre, seen here in 2007. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Lyme Park is located in Disley and was used by the BBC as a setting in its adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... Pride and Prejudice is a 1995 British television drama serial, adapted from Jane Austens novel of the same name, originally published in 1813. ...

References

• Disley parish Council; The Parish of Disley (Official Guide). (1994).

See Also

• Disley Online, Parish website
• Disley Cricket Club website

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