DIDSBURY, a chapelry in the parish of MANCHESTER, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 3 miles (W.) from Stockport, containing 933 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty. The chapel is dedicated to St. John. There are fairs for cattle, held April 30th and October 22d. Sir Edward Moseley, in 1685, conveyed certain lands, which, with subsequent donations, produce £46 a year, for the maintenance of a schoolmaster, who teaches forty children in a school-room built by subscription.