Disley
Disley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England.
Disley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. It is located on the edge of the Peak District in the Goyt Valley, south of Stockport and close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills. The population at the 2011 Census was 4,294. To the north, the River Goyt and the Peak Forest Canal, which opened in 1800, pass along the edge of the village. Today, it is a commuter town, retaining a semi-rural character.
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Worth seeing in and around Disley
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lyme Park
Lyme Park is a large estate south of Disley, Cheshire, England. It is managed by the National Trust and consists of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens and a deer park in the Peak District National Park.
2.2 km · grade II* listed country estate and park in Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England. It is 14.8 miles long and forms part of the connected English/Welsh inland waterway network.
1.2 km · canal in Derbyshire/Cheshire/Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Anson Engine Museum
The Anson Engine Museum is situated on the site of the old Anson colliery in Poynton, Cheshire, England. It is the work of Les Cawley and Geoff Challinor who began collecting and showing stationary engines for a hobby.
3.3 km · museum based in Poynton, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04All Saints Church, Marple
All Saints Church is in Church Lane, Marple, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.6 km · church in Marple, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Bollinhurst Reservoir
The Bollinhurst Reservoir was constructed in Lyme Park in 1872 for the Stockport District Waterworks Company. At the time of the First World War, it had a capacity of 84.46 million gallons.
1 km · reservoir in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06The Bow Stones Anglian cross shafts
The Bowstones or Bow Stones are a pair of Anglian cross shafts in Cheshire, England. Situated beside the old ridgeway between Disley and Macclesfield, overlooking Lyme Park, the Cheshire Plain, the city of Manchester and the hills of the Peak District, they are a scheduled monument.
3.2 km · scheduled monument in the parish of Lyme Handley, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07New Mills Town Hall
New Mills Town Hall is a municipal building on Spring Bank, New Mills, Derbyshire, England. Constructed of local gritstone, it was opened in 1871 as a public hall for the Mechanics Institute, and became a town hall in 1895 upon the creation of New Mills Urban District Council, which used it as administrative headquarters until its 1974 abolition.
3 km · town hall in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 08St Mary's Church, Disley
St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Chadkirk. It is on a hill overlooking the village of Disley, Cheshire, England.
200 m · church in Disley, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Disley
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 16 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 54 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 62 km
- Stations
- Middlewood railway station, 2.7 km · New Mills Central railway station, 2.6 km · New Mills Newtown railway station, 2.3 km · Furness Vale railway station, 3.7 km · Disley railway station, 100 m
- Liverpool → Disley63 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Disley58 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Disley74 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Disley
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Disley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextAfter taking in the splendid scenery and trekking to your heart's content, either camping out overnight or staying in Buxton, you might want to continue on to Sheffield, another post-industrial Northern city with more to offer than that description suggests.
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Next door to Disley
Disley is 19 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- New Millstown and civil parish in Derbyshire, England2.6 km
- High Lanevillage in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom1.8 km
- Furness Valevillage in Derbyshire, England3.6 km
- Newtownsuburb of New Mills, Derbyshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Hague Barvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom1.8 km
- Strinesvillage in Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK1.9 km