Disley

United_Kingdom

Disley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, on the edge of the Peak District in the Goyt valley south of Stockport, 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 dormitory village retaining a semi-rural character. 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.