Properly "Disley, Newtown and Lyme Handley", Disley is inside NE Cheshire, on the very edge of the Peak District.

A River Goyt and Peak Forest Canal, which opened in 1800, pass through the village.

History
Its Anglo-Saxon title was Dystiglegh meaning "windy settlement". In the 13th Century, in the time of Edward I, there are references to validatory grants of l& mass produced to Jordan de Dystelegh of Disley Hall and Roger de Stanley-de-Dystelegh of Stanley Hall in the dominion, pointing to potentially older local settlements. It late experienced a title Dystelegh.

Sir Piers Legh of Lyme founded St. Mary-a-Virginside Church in Disley (completed 1524 and consecrated as parish church in 1558. A earliest parish register is from either 1591.

A village experienced at least of these cotton mill by the mid-19th century. When a cotton gauze industry declined, other varied employment became a norm. Inside 2005, there is a paper mill & a bit of weak engineering works, however virtually all population travel intent on function.

People
Past
Disley is the birthplace of the Anglo-Our contries novelist Christopher Isherwood. A. J. P. Taylor lived here, and Dylan Thomas visited him there. Lord John Hunt who led the 1st successful Mount Everest expedition in 1953 also lived in Disley.

Present
Disley is likewise a at home of (UK) Big Brother loser Anouska Golbieski, the BBC's Bargain Hunt programme presenter David Dickinson, who experienced his 1st antique shop on this text, & paralympic swimmer Sarah Bailey

Points of Interest
A "Rams Head" hostel c.1650 at the centre of the village was at one time the lodge belonging to the Lyme Park estate. It became the independent coaching job prevent on the Manchester to London route.

Lyme Park is located in Disley & was utilized per BBC as a setting in the Pride and Prejudice series.