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Didsbury Village is a suburb of Manchester. It can be found 4.5 miles outside of Manchester City and on the banks of the River Mersey. It is one of the largest suburbs in Manchester, with just shy of 28,000 people living here.

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Didsbury was somewhat of a vanity project for whoever lived here in Anglo-Saxon times. Most places in the UK are named after whatever was going on in the village at the time or the way it looked, the chap behind Didsbury (Dyddi), named it after himself.

The first real records we have of Didsbury come from 1260. We know there was a corn grinding mill in the area. There may also have been a church, at least a grant was created to make a church. The place is now called St. James Church.

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In the English Civil War, Didsbury played a major role. It was one of the only places where the River Mersey could be crossed by the troops. This area was for the Royalists, whereas the rest of Manchester was in support of the Parliamentarians.

Up until this point, Didsbury was not majorly inhabited. It really started to become populated when Jewish immigrants started to head to the area at the tail end of the 18th Century.

The Victorians wanted to expand Manchester, and Didsbury was key to this. It was one of the most prosperous areas at the time. A lot of parts of Manchester attracted mansion building during the expansion of Manchester, but Disbury is one of the only areas to still have a mansion still standing.

Didsbury went through even more development in 1880 when the Midland Railway went through the area. The line closed in 1967, and the station building remained until the 1980s. This is because it is so easy to get into Manchester and travel there that there was no need for anything in Didsbury.

Unlike many parts of Manchester, there are a lot of independent businesses still thriving in Didsbury, some of them centuries old. We regularly get called in to fix or renew residential roofs that these days have commercial premises in the building underneath. The population seems to be getting a lot younger too, which is going to be great for the future. Despite the population boom, there are a lot of green spaces in the town, with Didsbury St. James (the old site of the village), being a stunning green open area, with a great pub backing onto it (it uses it as a beer garden)