Prestbury is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) north of Macclesfield.

Prestbury lies between Macclesfield and Wilmslow, for the most part on elevated ground above the flood-prone River Bollin.

There is no evidence of a settlement before Saxon times, although a cemetery nearby which had been excavated in 1808 contained pottery cremation urns and signs of sacrifice and was presumably pre-Christian.

The parish accounted for around a third of the total number of males employed in that branch of textile manufacturing in England and Wales in the early 19th century.

The defining characteristic of 21st-century development has been the replacement of quite sizeable houses by large mansions, such as that built for former footballer Wayne Rooney.

St Peter's Church is a Grade I listed building[21] and houses a Saxon cross within a Norman Chapel in its churchyard.

Prestbury Church of England Primary School[24] The village is a natural traffic hub because of the lay of the land.

The Macclesfield to Hazel Grove road (A523), built in 1810, goes through the parish in a north–south direction, passing to the east of the village.

[30] Numerous stars of sport and entertainment have lived in Prestbury for various lengths of time, including: In February 1977, the village made national headlines when two employees at the local branch of Williams & Glyn's Bank were murdered during a robbery.

Whilst the sub-branch was closed for lunch, 22-year-old senior cashier Ian Jebb was repeatedly stabbed and his 19-year-old assistant Susan Hockenhull was kidnapped.

As the branch was staffed only by these two, the alarm was only raised when customers were unable to enter the bank after the lunchtime closing period.

[45] In October 1977, David Walsh, 30, who was employed as a contractor to service adding machines at the bank and who was known to the victims, was found guilty at Chester Crown Court of their murders and was sentenced to life imprisonment.