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Library
Disley Library is located in the Community Centre. It is open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10.00am to 1.00pm and 2pm to 5.00pm, Fridays from 2.00pm to 7.00pm and Saturdays from 10am to 1pm. The People’s Network is now available at Disley Library. Members can use the computers for access to the internet and word processing free of charge for the first hour. Sessions can be pre-booked. Tel/Fax: 01663 765635.
Disley has an excellent primary school, which was built in 1911. However, the buildings have been extended and modernised to enable it to provide a wide curriculum for the children of the village up to the age of 11. For details about the school and admissions, please ring 01663 762047.
Poynton High School
At the age of 11, pupils from Disley Primary School transfer to Poynton High School, where they are able to take their GCSE examinations and stay on to take “A” level examinations as well as GNVQs. For information about the school, please contact Poynton High School, Yew Tree Lane, Poynton or telephone 01625 871811
Pre-school education
Disley Under Five’s is for children age 2.5 years old till they start school. It is located in Disley Primary School and is open 9.00am – 3.00pm Monday – Friday. Please see our website for fees and all other details www.disleyunderfives.org, or contact the Pre-School Manager Barbara on 01663 766127, or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/disleyunderfives.
Kids Zone offer a breakfast (7.30am – 9.00am), after school (3.15pm – 6.00pm) and holiday club (9.00am – 6.00pm) for school children, also located in Disley Primary School. For more details please contact Disley Kids Zone on 07789 882 297 or kidszonedisley@btinternet.com.
There is also a nursery in the village, Blue Grass Purple Cow Nursery, which is based in the former Higher Disley Methodist Chapel on Buxton Old Road. It takes children from the age of 3 months to school age and is open 8am to 6pm Mondays to Fridays. For further details, please ring 01663 764400.
Out of school activities
Disley has a flourishing Brownie pack as well as
Beaver, Cub, Scout and Venture
Scouts. The Brownies meet at the on Thursday evenings whilst the
Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Venture Scouts meet in the Scout Hut on the Station Approach. The Beavers meet on Wednesday evenings from 6pm 7pm. The Cubs meet on Tuesday evenings from 7pm to 8.15pm. The Scouts meet on Thursday evenings from 7.15pm to 9.15pm. The Explorer Scouts meet on a Wednesday evening from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. All age groups are open to boys and girls. For further information on the Brownies, please contact Maggie Poulson on 01633 7666761. For information on the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers please contact Carl Mitchell on 01663 762610 or visit the Disley Scouts Website.
Youth facilities
An open air ball court, owned by Disley Parish Council, is located on Station Approach whereby young people can gather and play football etc and a shelter where they can sit and talk. The Ball Court is floodlit from dusk to 10pm.
There is a Youth Club held on Wednesday evenings at the Baptist Chapel. For further information, contact the Minister Rev. James Clarke 01663 362000 or got www.disleybaptist.org.uk for details of opening times.
The School House Surgery in Disley occupies a building that was built by Thomas Legh of Lyme in 1825 for weekday and Sunday School teaching. The interior was re-designed and the surgery opened in these premises in 1991. One of the original beams remains exposed and the maple floors (once used for village dances) have been retained.
Doctors:
NHS Practice at the School House Surgery:
Tel: 01663 762484 (Appointments only) and 01663 764488 (Emergencies/office)
Surgery hours:
Mornings: 9am to 11am
Evenings 4pm to 5.45pm (except Wednesdays when the surgery closes at 1pm)
Hospitals:
Macclesfield District General Hospital: Tel 01625 421000
Stepping Hill: Tel 0161 483 1010
Both hospitals have accident and emergency facilities.
NHS Direct 0845 4647
The Eastern Cheshire NHS Primary Health Care Trust have published “The Health Map: your guide to local health services” which includes details of the local medical practice, pharmacy and dentists. There is also a list of “Handy telephone numbers”. Copies of the leaflet are available from the Eastern Cheshire Primary Health Care Trust on 01625 508300 or via their website – www.ecpct.nhs.uk
Services are held at St Mary’s every Sunday. There is an active choir under the guidance and leadership of the organist and choirmaster. From the tower, the peel of six bells is rung regularly by the Disley bellringers.
Sunday services: Morning worship 11am. Thursdays at 10.30am in St Mary’s Schoolrooms.
Sacred Heart Church, Whaley Bridge
Roman Catholic mass is celebrated every Sunday in Disley at 9.30am at the Methodist Church on Buxton Road. Mass is also celebrated at 11am and 6pm at Whaley Bridge.
Wycliffe Hall was opened in 1891 and became the meeting place for a group of Christians who had previously met in a cottage on the Crescent. In the past, the building has served as a base for sports clubs, amateur dramatics and for meetings of the Disley Rural District Council in its early years.
The main Sunday service, which is appropriate for all ages, is at 10.30am. During the week, the hall is used for for various activities including clubs for children and Bible study for adults. On Wednesday evenings, there is a Youth Club. For further information please contact the Minister Rev. James Clarke on 01663 36200 or go to www.disleybaptist.org.uk
Disley Methodist Church is located on Buxton Road. It was opened in 1906 when it replaced a chapel on Redhouse Lane known as Lodge Chapel. The former chapel became a wax polish works and was demolished in the 1930s after a serious fire left the building unsafe
Services are held every Sunday at 11am.
Quaker Meeting House
The Quaker Meeting House, Ring O’Bells Lane, was originally a public house which was erected in the 17th or early 18th centuries. The Ring O’Bells lost its licence in the mid 19th century and became a coffee tavern, popular with day trippers to the village. It was also used for early meetings of the Disley Parish Council. In the mid 20th century, the building was acquired by the Society of Friends and converted into a Meeting House and has since been extensively restored. Meetings are held on Sundays beginning at 10.45am. The building is also used for WEA classes and by the Disley Arts Society on a Monday morning.
Disley has two recreation grounds which have play areas for the under 12 year olds. The Arnold Rhodes Recreation Ground is near the White Lion on Buxton Road. The Newtown Playing Fields, with a full sized football pitch, is located opposite the entrance to the Peveril Estate on Buxton Road. There is also a small play area at Bentside, funded by Macclesfield Borough Council. In addition to the two recreation grounds, there is the Memorial Park on Buxton Road West. This small area, close to the station, has been restored by PRIDE volunteers, whose efforts have resulted in Disley receiving several awards. On Station Approach there is a multi-purpose ball court where young people are able to gather to either talk, play football or play other sports.
There are three allotment sites in Disley on land owned by the Parish Council. These are at Hagg Bank, Springfield and Newtown. For details of renting allotments, please contact the Parish Office (01663 762726).
Behind the Ram’s Head, there are two crown green bowling greens whilst further along the A6, near the entrance to Lyme Park is Disley Dam which provides fishing for local anglers who are members of the New Mills Angling Club. The Peak Forest Canal is popular for sailing, canoeing and walking along the towpath. At Marple, the canal is joined by the Macclesfield Canal whilst at Whaley Bridge, there is a branch to the Bugsworth Basin, which has been recently restored. The disabled are able to gain access to the canal where it crosses under Redhouse Lane. There is also an active Footpath society organising walks and maintaining footpaths in the area.
The Moorside Grange Hotel in Higher Disley has excellent sporting and swimming facilities at its leisure centre. On the opposite side of the village, on Jacksons Edge Road, Disley Amalgamated Sports Club formed in 1899, provides a range of sports including badminton, cricket, fitness suite, football, lacrosse, squash and tennis. Facilities include sports pitches, badminton, squash and tennis courts, a fully-equipped gym, astroturf 5-a-side football pitch and a bar and function room. Membership is open to all and there is coaching available for those who want to take up a new sport.
Also on the same side of the village is Disley Golf Club, which was established in 1889. The course is still in its original location along Stanley Hall Lane, off Jacksons Edge Road. The original members met at the Ram’s Head, but soon moved to a purpose built club house on Jackson’s Edge Road. In 1979 a new Club House was built on the edge of the course itself which offers a home-from-home atmosphere, with a bar, lounges and a snooker table. The views from the course are amongst the best from any inland golf course in Britain stretching from the Cheshire Plain and the Welsh Hills in the west and the Pennines in the east.
In addition, Disley has many other societies providing for leisure interests ranging from local history to Probus, weight-watching, Church Women’s Fellowship, Art Society, Luncheon Club and organisations for the youth such as scouts, cubs, beavers and brownies. For details of the contact names and phone numbers, please see societies
