Place:Disley Rural, Cheshire, England

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NameDisley Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates53.357°N 2.043°W
Located inCheshire, England     (1894 - 1974)
See alsoMacclesfield (borough), Cheshire, Englanddistrict municipality into which it was absorbed in 1974
Cheshire East, Cheshire, Englandunitary authority of which it became a part in 2009
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Disley Rural District is located on the very edge of the Peak District, in the Goyt Valley, very close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills, and south of Stockport, Greater Manchester.

In the 19th century the parish of Disley was included in Hayfield Rural Sanitary District alongside the parishes of 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. 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.

The district remained in existence until 1974, when it was merged into the new Borough of Macclesfield, but retained its parish council. Macclesfield Borough Council was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the new unitary authority of Cheshire East.

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