Description
Disley,/b> or Disley-Stanley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Stockport parish, Cheshire, adjacent to the Peak Forest Canal, at the boundary with Derbyshire, 6 miles SE of Stockport, with a station on the Stockport and Buxton section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockport. Acreage, 2591; population, 3423. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; net value, £120. Patron, Lord Newton. The church dates from the 15th century, and was restored in 1870 and 1882 ; it contains some good stained glass from Nuremberg, a monument to one of the Legh family, and an ancient brass. Lyme Park, the seat of Lord Newton, is the chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
