Welcome to TansleyVillage.org.uk

News and information for Tansley's community and visitors

March's picture - Tansley and Riber seen from Masson Hill in Matlock, 29th March 2009

Tansley is in Derbyshire, 1.5 miles east of Matlock, in the south-east of the Peak District, just outside the Peak District National Park in the centre of England.

The village has a village green with a play area, a fete/football field, village and community halls, one shop (for sale), a primary school, Anglican and Methodist churches, lots of historic buildings, two old mills and mill ponds, three pubs, garden centres and horticultural nurseries and a small industrial area. It is close to the water-mill heritage site of Lumsdale. The village's population is slightly under 1200.

Tansley is recorded in the Doomsday Book of 1086 as Tanslege. Tan means a branch of a valley. Lega/leah means a wood/glade. So Tansley is the wooded glade in the branch of a valley. [ack. Denys Gaskell]

Queries or comments about this site or suggestions for corrections, additional information or improvements are welcome by email here or you can write in the Guest Book.

This site was developed formerly by Denys Gaskell who is webmaster of
Tansley's Holy Trinity Church web site.

Tansley's community is indebted to Denys for his long service and devotion in creating and maintaining the content of this web site.

This is an independent web site now maintained by Chris Knightley.

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Updated 9th March (at 12,615 hits, average 75/week).