• Disley was a township and chapelry in Stockport Parish, Macclesfield Hundred (SJ 8990), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1894 the Newtown and Furness Vale areas were transferred to the county of Derbyshire.
• In 1936 there were further alterations to the county boundary with Lancashire.
• Including the hamlets of Cockshead, Danebank, Hagg Bank, High Lane (part), Jackson's Edge, Lane Ends, Lightalders, Newtown (part, mainly in Derbyshire) and Woodend.
• The population was 995 in 1801, 2225 in 1851, 2827 in 1901, and 2865 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Stockport, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Disley.
• Disley, St. Mary the Virgin (C of E). An chapelry in Stockport parish, becoming the parish church for Disley in 1913 (including the areas transferred to Derbyshire in 1894). Registers of Baptisms 1591–1962, marriages 1591–1750 & 1838–1980 and Burials 1591–1958 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Disley, Baptist Union Chapel, Buxton Road. Built in 1893.
• Disley, Methodist Chapel, Burton Road (Wesleyan). Founded 1805, rebuilt in 1906. Registers of baptisms 1875–1907 and 1927–1932 are at Manchester Central Library.
• Furness Vale, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). rebuilt in 1884.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Hayfield Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• New Mills Urban Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Disley Rural District (1894–1974).

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• North Cheshire (1832–67)
• East Cheshire (1868–85)
• Knutsford (1885–1915)
• Macclesfield (1918–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Hayfield

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Hayfield (1837–1937)
• North East Cheshire (1937–74)
• Macclesfield (1974–98)
• Cheshire East (1998+)

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